Talk:List of windmills

message: Well, I'm glad that the list was kept. If you care to check, it is developing nicely, and even subbing off lists of its own. How about some assistance? Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden are all well under-represented at the moment. Mjroots (talk) 05:07, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I noted your comment was in response, delayed, to a deletion discussion back in 2002-2004, that i just chose to archive.  Rather than to start off the Talk page that way, possibly a turnoff to new editors.  By the way, have all those separate lists of windmills, by region in the Netherlands, been developed since your comment in May?  Well anyhow the list has developed.  User:Swampyank created stub articles for most of the United States ones listed, i noticed, too. doncram (talk) 22:09, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: I think the scope of this article needs to be discussed. So far, the list and its various sub-lists have dealt with traditional windmills. Modern wind generators are a kind of windmill too. Question is, do we include all windmills however powered and whatever their function (which would include iron windpumps and modern wind generators) in the one list, or do we have a separate list for iron windpumps (which I think would possibly mostly fail WP:N) and a separate list for modern wind generators / turbines? Mjroots (talk) 08:14, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Wind farms

message: I just fleshed out the entry previous marked as 'unknown location' (actually located in Setouchi, Okayama, Japan).  However, this 'windmill' is not really a windmill, but a public toilet built in the shape of a windmill.  Sure, it's tower-shaped and has a wheel turned by wind, but it doesn't function as a mill in any way.  Even if it did, I don't think anybody would want what it produces.  Should such fake windmills be included in this list at all? 119.241.29.148 (talk) 03:44, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 'Fake' Windmills?

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message: As I noted at Talk:List of windmills in the United States#Names of windmills, location info, other formatting, I have been changing over U.S. table formatting to lead each entry with name of windmill in  "Windmill" or "Mill" field, then give all location info including coordinates in 2nd field.
For the U.S., many/most existing windmills have proper noun names.  For example any one listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places has a name assigned by that program, which has good guidelines for how NRHP nominators are to choose names.  Where a proper noun name is not immediately available, I have just put in "Windmill", or given a descriptive title such as "Windmill at Smith Cottage", which I think is okay.  I don't mean for it to appear as if Wikipedia is coining a new proper noun name.
This list system was built using town or village names as the first column, as if that signifies enough.  That didn't work well especially for some U.S. towns like Hempstead in New York which have multiple windmills, and it seems wrong to seem to identify them all as the same.  Perhaps formal proper noun names are not as widely available in many other nations.  But I wonder if names assigned by heritage registers can be found and used in some cases.  And, is it okay/good to proceed with putting a name column first, even where just "Windmill" is the generic name, or non-name, being given at least for now? --Doncram (talk,contribs) 22:15, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names of windmills, location info, other formatting for non-U.S.