Talk:Great Slave Lake

message: The Great Slave Lake is located in the Great Slave Lake shear zone.  A shear zone is not the same as a rift zone.  A rift is where a continent is splitting.  A shear zone is where the rocks have been sheared by forces acting roughly parallel to the shear zone, not pulling it apart as in a rift.
In any case, I can't find any evidence (other than Wikipedia) that the G.S. Lake is a rift lake.  If anyone has a specific reference to the contrary, please note it.  I've removed the statement from the article, and the article from the "rift lake" category.  Please don't restore those items unless you have a good citation.  Gwimpey 04:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shear zone not the same as rift 

message: For some reason, the image does not seem to display correctly in the infobox.  If someone knows why this happens, please let me know and do what you can to fix the image.  Thanks. Em3rald 04:07, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
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message: In Finnish and Estonian languages, it is called Slave Lake. --88.112.140.146 (talk) 09:17, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be a bit odd as Slave Lake, Alberta is a town on the shores of Lesser Slave Lake. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 22:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

text: Don't see why that should be odd (but maybe the Finns and Estonians use Finnish and Estonian words anyway).  Is an indigenous name for the lake known?  Deipnosophista (talk) 08:53, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I just added the four primary Indigenous names for the lake Danachos (talk) 17:09, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Slave

message: So the introduction states volume as 2000 some odd cubic kilometers of water vs. 1500 something in the infobox. On the list of lakes by volume it state Great Slave Lake as around 1500 as well. What is the correct volume? Someone? Anyone? Bueller??? 94.100.23.51 (talk) 13:53, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There are at least three different volumes for the lake. All of which are referenced. By the way List of lakes by area uses the 2,090 figure which has now shrunk to 2,088 due to theft. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 10:25, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Volume

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message: Please, editors, consider buffing out sections on the traditional names. There is plenty of conversation around the distaste for the term "Great Slave" for their lake, and the linked sources around the traditional names touch on that. It is easy to find. Consider giving the translations for Tinde'e or Tu Nedhé and the like, talk about which Nations' countries are centred around the lake, etc.
Danachos (talk) 17:08, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: We should consider changing the name to: Great Lake of the Dene. This is because the term "slave" is detested by Dene groups, the name in French is directly that (Grand lac des Esclaves), Esclaves or 'Slaves'/"Slaveys" here meaning the Slavey people. Replace "Slavey" with "Dene" and it goes from offensive to accurate, especially since the various Dene names translate most directly to "great/big lake." Perhaps English could say "Great Dene Lake"? Danachos (talk) 04:38, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the Great Lake of the Dene as that violates Wikipedia:No original research. Wikipedia can't just arbitrarily change the name of the lake just because Slave is offensive. Wikipedia follows not leads. If the official name gets changed then this article name would as well. I looked at http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search and the only names for the lake are here. The database of names is good for traditional names as I've moved several NU and NWT places based on it. While some people want the name changed it doesn't seem t be something major yet and the people who live around the lake still call it that. See Behchokǫ̀ and Gamètì. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 18:11, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

text: How does this look? CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 23:54, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks great! Thanks for taking this on and clarifying. Makes a lot more sense to me. Robbie Mallett (talk) 10:31, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names for the Lake