Talk:Lake Tahoe

message: I have lived near or in the Sierra Nevada for almost my entire life.  One of the most annoying errors that I hear all of the time is when someone refers to the Sierra Nevada as the "Sierra Nevada Mountains" or the "Sierra Nevada Range".
The word Sierra means a jagged or serrated mountain range.  Placing the word range after Sierra Nevada translates to Snow-covered mountain range range.  Placing the word mountains after Sierra Nevada translates to Snow-covered mountain range mountains.  The correct name of the range to the west of Lake Tahoe is the Sierra Nevada.
The first sentence in this article should be changed to correct this error.
Pah Rah (talk) 21:50, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: done. Firejuggler86 (talk) 06:49, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please avoid redundant redundancies 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I don't know what the policy is on this, as I'm a new editor, but it seems to me that the Highways portion of this article counts as original research, as it doesn't cite any sources and relies entirely on the writer's personal experience. It reads more like local tips than a researched and sourced article.
Also, I've made it my first Wikipedia project to try and get this article to a ga rating. For this purpose, it seems adding a few maps would help (beyond simply improving the text). Is there any good place to get either topographical or city maps without breaking copyright? Would a bus map help things at all?
Thanks - 
SpiderGnome (talk) 07:01, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving the Highways portion and adding a map 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Lake The Lake. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  signed, Rosguill talk 22:36, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Lake The Lake" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Thanks for your edit. I should have started a discussion before reverting. I'm just wondering if it's necessary to mention the Great Pacific garbage patch?  It seems like to only reason it's included is for shock value ("Great Pacific"!), and there are no values attached to it.  Maybe garbage patches are actually pretty low in microplastics?? Also, you wrote "the highest microplastic pollution concentrations found among 38 lakes and reservoirs measured". Is that significant?  Are these 38 lakes in the area, or across the state, county, or world?  I know what you're trying to say, that microplastic levels are high, but none of the comparisons actually state this.  Is there a chart someplace that states when levels become dangerous, or something like that.  Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:49, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I mentioned the Great Pacific Patch only as a point of comparison for general reader. People don't really understand what any specific measurement of microplastics means, because they're well… microplastics. There isnt also a measured "safe" level of microplastics for animal life, human or otherwise. The more important and objective comparison is that it is one of the three highest levels measured out of the 38 major lakes and reservoirs they tested.  Steven Walling • talk 22:53, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Microplastics