Talk:The Broads

message: Why are some links in bold? --Brion 02:01 Oct 6, 2002 (UTC)
Because I am trying to highlight the Broads (lakes) vis-avis the villages/towns. Is there a Wiki convention that prevents me from doing that?
User:Renata
:None at all, but I find it helps to include a brief note explaining ad-hoc tyopgraphical conventions to the reader. I've added such. --Brion 06:03 Oct 6, 2002 (UTC)
Did sea levels really rise?  That doesn't seem very likely to me. - anon
:Is that some kind of denial of global warming?? 80.3.128.5 12:49, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I was on the Broads today. Does anyone know their depth, or the depth of the channels? —Christiaan 22:58, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I found this http://www.livinglakes.org/broads/ which says they're "mostly less than four metres deep" —Christiaan 23:05, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Depth of Broads 

message: It would be great if someone could get a map up on here. Also I heard something about how the rivers are all tidal running to and from Great Yarmouth, in places at a higher level than the surrounding land (hence the historic use of windmills to pump water into them from the land). Anyone know better details or good sources of reliable info?  — 80.3.128.5 13:06, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: One or more maps are still needed showing the Norfolk and Suffolk areas, the Authority area and the features named in the body of the article.SovalValtos (talk) 11:27, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map + Flows 

message: :Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
*Support - Move proposer, as above. DWaterson 22:09, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: As they articles on the Norfolk Broads and Suffolk Broads are merely stubs, it seems to make sense to merge/redirect here. (A lot of people say Norfolk Broads when they mean The Broads anyway). Please make any opposition known (if there is none before Sunday, I will proceed with the merge)
:Support - no need for three articles on essentially the same subject. DWaterson 20:24, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It'll get interesting if they finally decide on a name. Norfolk is pro "Norfolk Broads" for the whole area, Suffolk is worried that the bits in Suffolk will end up in a area officially called the "Norfolk Broads". GraemeLeggett 12:17, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging Norfolk/Suffolk Broads in here. 

message: Apart from the brief reference I have added there is no mention of hire boats on the Broads. Since these probably form the majority of the boats present and they have a long history going back before WW1 this seems odd.--Hymers2 (talk) 12:34, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hire Boats 

message: I've uploaded a location map of the Broads to Commons (shown to right). I have not created an associated  template, but this can easily be done if desired. Some of the rivers look like they need tweaking, I'll get on this soon
If this is created, it allow enable creation a map of the Broads similar to the one under construction at Talk:Dartmoor#Location map, and could be used in related articles (see this example). Hope people find it useful.--Nilfanion (talk) 22:17, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  location map 

message: I was surprised to find no mention of eutrophication on this page. I'm going to add a section here, but I think it may deserve its own page e.g. 'eutrophication of the norfolk broads'. I'm fairly new to this, so could someone wise in the ways of wikipedia decide if it needs a new page or if it is better kept here.Wise zoologist (talk) 12:35, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eutrophication 

message: I'm the one who'd added the term "lakes" in an attempt to define what "broads" are. Evidently that term isn't acceptable. I'm sorry to have introduced an error, and I'm glad somebody caught it. 
But something must define "broads" for non-English readers. It is not a term I'm familiar with (not as a descriptor of landscape, at any rate), and I have plenty of education and read widely. Someone reading an encyclopedia article on The Broads shouldn't have to go to a dictionary to discover what the article deals with in the most basic sense. 
Please consider clarifying this, preferably in the first paragraph. 
Thanks again for catching my error. 
05:56, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It was not a mistake and I have added some clarification.Charles (talk) 08:56, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broads 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The statement "and the design of the boats have included several innovative features, including short fin keels and a separate rudder. The design was eventually used on seagoing yachts from the 1960s." is contentious/dubious. The evolution of sailboat design is *very* complicated, and the Broads boats are probably better regarded as a continuation and development of a 19thC line of design that was very little used in salt water design in the UK between about 1914 and the 1960s. This image, for example, shows an early 20thC German boat, albeit with a centreboard, that is very much of the short keel and separate rudder style. http://www.fky.org/prestodata/pics.php4?pic=1904/12/s1904-12-0280-092.jpg&sec_id=8ca09af3a824995da1dceb387d3cbb93 There are doubtless numerous others out there. But really isn't the whole subject much too technical for this particular article and the sentence would be better ommitted? The supplied reference is not to a specialised work on the evolution of sailboat design, and I imagine the author simply didn't know enough about 19th C design. 212.159.44.170 (talk) 10:16, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recreation 

message: Let’s face it, everyone knows the area as that.  So not to mention this right at the very beginning, in the first para of the lede, is ridiculous.  That it is mentioned much further down the lede makes no difference to this argument.   I’m raising this here as my edit to put it in para. 1 was reverted, as this “was dealt with” lower down.  “Dealt with”!!!  Good grief.  We’re all about reflecting what is, not deflecting something to lower down. Boscaswell talk 22:12, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not everyone necessarily does know the area by that name, though I believe that a great many people do indeed use that term, and in an inaccurate generalised way when they have in mind the Suffolk Broads too. Wherever it appears, I think it could do with referencing. I'd expect we can all agree we don't need to have this piece of info appear twice in the lede so we can perhaps agree a form of words that works for all. I note that 'Norfolk Broads' as a search term redirects to this page. cheers Geopersona (talk) 03:44, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I reverted your edit because it meant that the same information was repeated in the lead, in rapid succession (by the way: WP:AGF). I see the problem though, and I agree that "Norfolk Broads" is a common name that needs to be dealt with – though I don't agree that it has to be dealt with in the first sentence as you are demanding. I did think afterwards that a possible solution would be simply to move the existing third paragraph ("Although the terms Norfolk Broads and Suffolk Broads are used to identify specific areas within the two counties respectively, the whole area is frequently referred to as the "Norfolk Broads".") to the end of the first, above the information about the extent of the area. Dave.Dunford (talk) 08:14, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Excellent! Boscaswell talk 08:22, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks. I've made the change as proposed. Dave.Dunford (talk) 09:20, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Norfolk Broads 

message: The image with the caption St. Benet's Abbey is not of the Abbey of which nothing remains visible above ground. It is of the ruined gatehouse (the stone part) and the drainage mill which was later built over it (the brick part) now also ruined. The site of the Abbey is a couple of hundred metres or so the ESE of the gatehouse and is marked by a large,(modern) wooden cross whose shadow is just visible on Google Earth (3D magnified). I propose to change the image caption to "The ruined gatehouse of St. Benet's Abbey." Mike Spathaky (talk) 03:09, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  St. Benet's Abbey image title 

message: Seem to be a lot of use of Yacht when I think sailing dingy is more appropriate. Kitchen Knife (talk) 23:32, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The Broads are used by both yachts and sailing dinghies (sic) in substantial numbers. All the references to yachts in the article are clearly to proper yachts and not sailing dighies. Perhaps the latter deserve a mention too. Mike Spathaky (talk) 10:41, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Yachts

message: "There is also a second navigable link to the sea, via the River Waveney and its link to Oulton Broad."
In the context of the wider "Geography" section, what does this mean? What is the first navigable link to the seat explicitly mentioned in that section?
--Criticalthinker (talk) 08:19, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second navigable link