Talk:Watauga River

message: The article contains this confusing sentence:  This impoundment receives two important tributaries, the Elk River and Roan Creek, whose former valley of bottom land forms a very large embayment of Watauga Lake.  I can't tell what "whose former valley..." refers to.  Is it the Elk River or Roan Creek?  Or something else?  I'd reword it for clarity, but can't due to the ambiguity.
Also I have trouble with this bit: The original settlers of Nashville, Tennessee set out from the Watauga River area, called the Watauga Country, during the American Revolution when they realized that the British Proclamation of 1763 forbidding settlement of its colonists west of the Blue Ridge Mountains was essentially now unenforceable.  I can believe the Nashville settlers came from the Watauga area (although a citation would be nice), but I'm skeptical about their motivation being the unenforceable nature of the Proclamation of 1763 during the American Revolution.  The Proclamation was never enforceable, and the Watauga Country is itself west of the Blue Ridge and technically illegal under the Proclamation.  I suspect the Nashville settlers motivation was the cession of the Nashville Basin by the Cherokee; probably in the 1775 Treaty of Sycamore Shoals (aka Treaty of Watauga), described on the Sycamore Shoals page.  I'll come back here later and edit this section unless the Proclamation story can be referenced. Thanks! Pfly 18:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: the history reference could be a bit briefer and under a section for Sycamore Shoals. 4.129.71.185 15:41, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think the History Section needs to be greatly expanded.Jhscarborough (talk) 20:26, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Syntax

message: :whitewater rafting and kayaking
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Rice has some really nice dphotos posted --- the TVA generating schedule during the summer season normally runs from about 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and I think that an very informative series of photos could show a "before and after" digital  photo below Wilbur Dam. Also the Overmountain Victory Trail ssociation will be undertaking the 2007 reenactment in Elizabethton on approximate date of September 25, making for an excellent chance to obtain some really nice digital photos.4.129.71.185 15:41, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Recreation and tourism

message: I'm confused by the recent edits that say that the Watauga River enters Tennessee in Carter County. Previously the article said it come through Johnson County. From this topo map, it sure appears to me that the river flows northwest from the Boone area, entering Tennessee in Johnson County.--orlady 21:07, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Jhscarborough (talk) 00:05, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Geographic confusion

message: This map was loading at one previous time,but I am now having trouble getting to display...I am also wanting to use the same map within a riverbox for the Doe River article as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%3AWataugaDoeRiverMap.png
Image:WataugaDoeRiverMap.png
Anyone care to weigh in on this matter?Bee Cliff River Slob (talk) 19:47, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Difficult river infobox map

message: First off, it seems like this  line should be down in the Recreation section since it probably isn't about a log or some other debris. What say you, Bee Cliff?
But it also seems unclear. Let's  say it is about river running. Do people put in at the heel of Watauga Dam, take out, portage around Wilbur and then put back in? Is there a water slide around Wilbur Dam for boaters? Or shouldn't this sentence say "between Wilbur Dam and the head (or some definitive point) of Boone Lake"? It's 33 miles from the mouth of the Watauga to Wilbur Dam so I'm guessing what I am suggesting is correct, but that needs clarification in the article regardless of where the sentence resides. Jhscarborough (talk) 00:40, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Watauga Lake to Boone Lake 

message: The article page gets coordinates (for the river's mouth) dynamically from Wikidata and puts them in the upper right hand corner. When the Geobox template is also used and coordinates are entered for the mouth, an error is returned. If anyone knows how to make that error disappear while retaining coordinates in the Geobox, either let me know how, or go ahead and fix it. I'm pretty sure other rivers have coordinates in  both places, but I will check just to be sure. Thanks. Jhscarborough (talk) 03:55, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The error message doesn't appear for me now, and I've got rid of the other error message, so all seems to be well. I've removed the example error message in your post above, since it put this talk page into a maintenance category even though there was no real error on the page. Deor (talk) 12:49, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for taking a look at the issue! Jhscarborough (talk) 13:07, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Coordinate Error Message