Talk:Geography of Wales

message: Thanks for the effort IP, but sorry, I'm not much happier with the new map than I was with the old one. It seems to show principal areas in different tones of grey (but why? - we already have a map showing those areas more clearly), national parks (Snowdonia looks to have very inaccurate boundaries - see this, for example), and some towns, some of which (Holyhead, Rhyl) are wrongly located, and no towns are shown in the Valleys (main centre of population). Also, no topography is shown, and no rivers.  The coastline and England boundary are shown more accurately than before, which is good.  Thanks, but further work needed I think.  I'll copy both maps (old and new) to this page for ease of comparison.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:02, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New map 

message: I am rewriting this article as part of the Awaken the Dragon project. I have already rewritten the section previously named "Topography and geology", substituting the section headings " Physical geography" and "Geology". I intend next to expand and better-reference "Land use", "Political geography" and "Climate".
I propose to further remodel the article on the lines of the Geography of Ireland article which is an FA. I intend to remove some of the listy sections such as "National Parks", "Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty", "Waterfalls" and "Lakes and Reservoirs". Any comments on my plans would be welcome.  Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:05, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewriting this article

message: Congratulations on a well deserved GA.
Just two points on the Lead: firstly, the initial sentence still sounds rather odd. I propose we go with the intro used on the Wales article, which was arrived at by mediation i.e. Wales () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east, the Irish Sea to its north and west, and the Bristol Channel to its south.;
and secondly, the length of Wales' coastline here (over ) differs to that noted in the Wales article (over ). Coastline was discussed at Talk:Wales here. I have no view as to which figure is 'correct', if there is such a thing, but we should be consistent. Daicaregos (talk) 12:35, 25 April 2016
: Thank you, that is a good point you raise. I believe all articles in the chain should have consistency in such basic facts. , could you look into this? Sainsf <^>Feel at home 12:49, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for bringing up that point. I have found a good source for the length of the coastline and the figure used before was way off. I have also rephrased the opening sentence as suggested. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:56, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead 

message: The article needs to include something about the geographical distribution of the two languages. 
Also, regarding the areas of the lakes,
(a) do we have a good source for the precise area of Llyn Tegid to substantiate the claim that it is still the largest lake? I suspect that the area varies materially depending on the water level.
(b) it would be preferable to input the areas in km2 (to one decimal place) and then convert it to
sq miles, as doing the opposite creates too large rounding errors.----Ehrenkater (talk) 21:27, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language 

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message: Is that really true?  Most of Wales is hilly, and parts are mountainous - but most is not, in my view.  Sources for the existing statement?  Checking above, I see I raised this before.  But I still don't think it's right, and it gives a false impression to non-locals.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:48, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd have to concur! And indeed much of upland Wales might reasonably described as moorland.Geopersona (talk) 19:28, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Most of Wales is mountainous..." 

message: Two issues here: i) the given reference in what is presently the 5th para of the Physical geography section no longer works - it just takes you to the homepage of the BCS and conducting a search there on Welsh coastline yields no results. ii) as editors who have approached this topic before will well know, given coastline lengths (anywhere) are almost meaningless without further qualification (see How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension)  cheers Geopersona (talk) 06:18, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length of the Welsh coast 

message: I propose merging Geography and identity in Wales into Geography of Wales. The content in Geography and identity in Wales could quite easily be replicated and summarised as a sub-section in Geography of Wales#Political Geography and it could be confusing to readers to have two similarly-named articles. As the first article is about 12 years old I thought I'd open a discussion rather than do it anyway. Bonoahx (talk) 12:40, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 04:51, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal