Talk:Boat lift

message: The image gallery on the external link Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam boat lift shows that the structure is a canal inclined plane, not a boot lift. I propose to move all info regarding Krasnoyarsk to that page. K. Roose
:You're right, I moved it to canal inclined plane. Markussep 15:56, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Krasnoyarsk - boat lift or inclined plane?

message: The image Image:Three gorges dam locks view from vantage point.jpg on Wikipedia Commons clearly shows that this is a lock. I propose that all references to the Gorges dam are removed from the boat lift page. K. Roose
They are locks, and also boatlifts.Jeff 21:13, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are locks, which are installed and working.  The boat lift is still vaporware.  Here's where it was supposed to go.. The idea was that small passenger ships could get through faster via the boat lift, rather than going through the 5-lock chain of locks, which takes about four hours.  --John Nagle (talk) 07:43, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Last night I went looking for an update on progress on the three gorges ship lift.  The most recent reference I could find was to 2008.  It said construction on the ship lift had been temporarily suspended due to a recent earthquake.  China is a repressive government, which can suppress bad news.  I suspect that the ship lift is not just delayed, but has run into technical problems which will prevent it ever being completed.  Geo Swan (talk) 02:40, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Three Gorges Dam - boat lift or lock?

message: I proposed this article being renamed to avoid confusion like that behind the addition of this section.  It is seriously off-topic in this article.  
Okay, I just took a closer look at that edit, and felt comfortable reverting it.
It was added by a wiki-ID which only made that single edit, and since it is totally unreferenced, and may have been contributed by an individual in a conflict of interest.  If it had referenced a single WP:Reliable source, I would have instead asked for opinions on which other article might be better places for it.  Geo Swan (talk) 02:16, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this. Residential boat "lifts" are not transportation-related. The only thing that is like them that comes close to fitting here is the motorized lifts used to take boats out of the water for maintenance and storage. At least those actually move the boat from one place to another rather than just lift it up. Jojalozzo 03:28, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: The section on ''"Residential boat lifts"''

message: Last night I came across a book from 1989 that had a table listing a couple of dozen shiplifts.  
One problem with our table is that its r eliability is questionable given that different individuals, with different interpretations, offered the figures for the lifts capacities.  I think we should use the capacity figure from that table when they disagree with the figures we already have.
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One difficulty with this table is that the authors included various kinds of inclined planes and water wedges.  Another is that it had a field that described the type of the lifts in detail, but in terms I didn't understand.
I transcribed this table -- in part.  I figured including the description fields would violate copyright.  So left out the field that included a comment on the lift type, but I left in the fields that only contained "facts" -- as facts aren't copyrightable.  My understanding of Feith v Rural is that a list of facts can be copyrightable -- based on its selective ordering of the elements.  So, while the original table was in chronological order User:Geo Swan/ship lifts is ordered by the tonnage of the largest vessel the lift can carry.  Geo Swan (talk) 03:01, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Another list of ship lifts

message: I added a cleanup section flag already, but if anyone knows how to make the table utilize the convert template automatically, that will be a lot easier than manually retyping all the numbers into the templates by hand!
Ninjalectual (talk) 05:59, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selected lifts table - unit conversions?