Talk:River Wharfe

message: The statement The Wharfe is the most volatile, fastest rising river in the World seems extremely unlikely to be true! And the comment re its reputation as dangerous is surely no more true than for many a river amongst the cautious-minded. Some perspective would benefit this article. Geopersona (talk) 19:37, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Reputation of river

message: The Strid redirects here. Should there be more information about The Strid, seeing as it's a rare form of river, the depth of which is yet unmeasured and it has claimed the lives of several tourists? The section on it only uses the word "deceptive" to describe it, which really is a nonsense word (if it's said to be "deceptively deep" it can both mean "not as deep as it seems" or "deeper than it seems"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ifrit (talk • contribs) 06:14, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Be bold - if you see something that you believe is "worthless", why not change it and make it better, and let everybody benefit?  Langcliffe (talk) 08:22, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Strid 

message: An update is needed but neither original research nor unreferenced material is acceptable.
This is interesting
https://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/19587081.video-shock-youtuber-measures-depth-strid-bolton-abbey
but it's only the local rag.  Geofpick (talk)
* Geofpick I have a couple of problems with the Youtube video. Firstly, the guy admits on the video that he doesn't know what he is doing. Secondly, I have personally dived the full length of the Strid on a cave rescue practice, and know that it is only a few metres deep. Admittedly, that is "personal research", but the reference given is a good secondary source by a well-known diver with a good reputation who confirms that it is 15' feet deep. I suspect that we currently have the author of the video making repeated attempts to publicise his efforts. I will concede that he is doing a prettty good job, but then it is all too easy to propogate fake news on the web. Langcliffe (talk) 18:46, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Depth of The Strid 

message: The statements contained within the first paragraph of this section are not substantiated by either of the references (one of which is of dubious value anyway), and run counter to my experience of the area. I intend to remove this paragraph unless persuaded otherwise. --Langcliffe (talk) 21:20, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economy 

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thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: A figure for the length of the Wharfe is given in the lede and infobox (104.6km / 65 miles) - its not quite certain that Owen et al is the ref for that but I presume that it is. Given the apparently varying accuracy of figures from that book, I have, as with some other watercourses where possibly questionable lengths have been asserted, painstakingly measured its length on online 1:25,000 scale OS mapping using a digital tool and determined it (from Beckermonds to its confluence with the Ouse) at 121.8km / 75.7 miles. If the furthest reaches of Oughtershaw Beck and of Green Field Beck are added to give the length of the physical river rather than the 'cultural' one, then a further 7.7km / 4.8mi or 7.6km / 4.7mi need to be added - Oughtershaw is longer by about 100m but a pretty close call). I'd be confident of the accuracy of each of those figures to within 1%. This is of course original research on my part so cannot be included in the article but it does at least give an idea of what a true figure should look like if and when an editor finds a suitable reference out there! cheers Geopersona (talk) 13:34, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length of river