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Your English variety

After the rivers/creeks category discussion ended, I saw your comment: I think of a creek as a tidal inlet, possibly fed by a rivulet, as opposed to a stream, brook, beck, burn or billabong. Curious, if you don't mind saying this about yourself — in general, where are you, or where is this the normal meaning of "creek"? I've never heard of creeks being tidal inlets, so I was a bit surprised by your comment. Nyttend (talk) 20:25, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was born and brought up in southeast England, where the term "creek" usually means tidal creek, and inland watercourses smaller than rivers are brooks and streams. I spent my summer holidays in Scotland, where burn is the common term for streams smaller than rivers.

I spent most of my working life in Canada, so mostly use American spelling. I came across inland creeks in the USA. The word is obviously British in origin, so perhaps was or is used in the sense of an inland stream in some part of Britain. I think that would be rare.

I have retired to a coastal village in Costa Rica, where an estero is not an estuary but a lagoon, emptying into the ocean, often rain fed via very small rios..

Given the many inconsistently used names for moving bodies of water, it seems simplest to use "river" as a catch-all. Perhaps "stream" would be more accurate, but I can't see any chance of getting consensus on that change, or any great value in it. Aymatth2 (talk) 00:52, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People of Kirundo Province has been nominated for renaming

Category:People of Kirundo Province has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:52, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lists of events lists has been nominated for merging

Category:Lists of events lists has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:04, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lakes in Antarctica

Jennings Lake (AfD discussion)

I did Lake Patos (AfD discussion), helping the disappearing ducks. Tag! You are it. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 22:05, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. I already did thousands of stubs on the other half of Antarctica. This one looks like yet another merge and redirect. Step one is to find an online map... Aymatth2 (talk) 22:54, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Places with a past

Oyster Bay, Tanzania (AfD discussion)

I don't know whether you'll enjoy countering systemic bias on this one and putting the old pre-independence history in; with Harry L. Ford and the police station that couldn't go in the shopping centre. But here it is, in case you might. There appear to be a few more sources, beyond what I mentioned, on how the area has changed post-independence. Uncle G (talk) 07:23, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]