Talk:Lake Michigan

message: Just wondering if there should be mention of Bull Shark as a rare but possible inhabitant of the lake (please see the article for Bull Shark and the related reference) due to the connection of Lake Michigan to Salt water via the Illinois River->Mississippi River? It is fact that there have been bull shark sightings and even a verified shark attack near Chicago but not sure if it should be in the article or really even how to include, looking for community consensus.
Thanks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.224.0.41 (talk) 17:32, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Bull Shark]]s and connection with salt water

message: I've removed the rather large footer with links to topics about greater Chicago, because it doesn't seem relevant to this article.  That's a bit like having a navigation guide for Rio de Janeiro on an article about the Atlantic Ocean just because the Atlantic beach is a popular feature of the city.  Lake Michigan may seem to be just a part of Chicagoland to Chicagoans, but it's a bit bigger than that. Tverbeek 01:07, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Chicagoland

message: I agree with the above said, why is 30,000 important? Now I want to know why a county in Wisconsin (Door) that according to the statistics is under 30,000 is included? Oh yea and, it is a county not a city! I suggest get rid of the 30,000 rule and even city distinction, maybe important shoreline communities. I have not changed anything but I will remove Door if no one changes or removes! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.186.114.73 (talk) 04:57, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree and have removed the "30,000 rule" from the text. Zariane (talk) 15:34, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Door County 

message: I removed the Chicago River image  because (a) article was crowded with images, and (b) didn't really offer a view of the lake or any important content to the article. --mtz206 (talk) 14:53, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chicago River image 

message: No mention of fish, can someone add? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.206.165.61 (talk) 09:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: fish?

message: The coordinates need the following fixes:
* Write here
216.163.33.178 (talk) 14:45, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Coordinates

message: I think the problem on the ranking is that it is second in volume but third in area (before/after Lake Huron, so that the term "largest" creates an unintended ambiguity.  7&6=thirteen (talk) 15:49, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I would rank Lake Michigan third, as most people think of surface area when speaking of size of lakes. Lake Ontario has nearly 3 1/2 times the volume of Lake Erie, but most people think of them as roughly the same size. Phizzy  19:34, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Lake Michigan]] and [[Lake Huron]] rankings

message: I was just wondering what was the determining factor for which cities are listed? Because there are towns on the lake in other states that have much larger populations than some of the ones listed for Michigan. There is, for instance, a town listed for Michigan that has a population of less than 2,000 people. Tad Lincoln (talk) 03:23, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cities on the lake 

message: Lynch, Jim, November 08. 2010 Low Great Lakes levels prompt new call for action: U.S., Canada look at options to slow flow out of Lake Huron Detroit News.   7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:18, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Good article on Great Lakes levels

message: Michigan and Huron together form one single lake.  both are merely larges bays of that lake.
i believe that a six-mile straight connects them, and they certainly rise and fall together.
so there are not really five great lakes, but instead only four.
Michigan is not the sole entirely US great lake because it is not a lake.
Lake Huron-Michigan is the largest great lake by surface area, and the second largest by volume.
people would come to recognize this if Wikipedia combined its articles on the two supposed lakes into one article and called them Huron-Michigan.  Huron is the larger, and many Canadians would very likely feel offended or slighted if priority were given to the entirely US bay of the lake.
23:27, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Lake Michigan is indeed a LAKE and is entirely within the United States. How can that offend anyone?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.32.50.241 (talk) 12:44, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: For some people it doesn't take much.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.32.56.189 (talk) 17:35, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michigan and Huron together form one single lake. 

message: I was looking at a map of Lake Michigan while visiting Chicago recently, and noticed an interesting feature that most people probably never considered about that, or any of the great lakes.  That feature is that the lake is so large, that it contains numerous islands that in themselves are large enough to contain bodies of water that are large enough to themselves be lakes.
So I thought that the following would be some interesting facts to add to the wiki articles about not only each of the great lakes, but also to the articles about all other lakes in the world that also contain lakes:
How many total lakes are in (or on) each of the great lakes?
What islands are they located on?
What are their names?
99.153.192.158 (talk) 15:32, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of lakes in (or on) each great lake? 

message: The article's lack of a modern map indicating the lake's geographical features (islands, bays, etc.) and surrounding cities is a curious omission.
For that matter, there is not such a map accompanying any of the main articles for the five Great Lakes.
Starling2001 (talk) 19:03, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  No map? 

message: I added a brief section on the Michigan Triangle. I'm not sure if it's noteworthy enough to be a standalone article, I'll let others be the judge of that. But, it has been covered by several local media outlets in both Wisconsin and Michigan, and has been covered by CNN, all over the span of several years, so I believe that it is an important section to include in the article on Lake Michigan.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fredsteve3 (talk • contribs) 21:08, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michigan Triangle 

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message: I believe Lake Michigan is the Great Water and that is spelled Gichigami. It doesn't begin with a M.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmallonen (talk • contribs) 18:50, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ojibwe Language 

message: This article could arguably use a standalone section that digs more deeply into environmental damage to Lake Michigan -- including pollution, invasive species, overdevelopment, destruction of specific habitats, changes to fisheries, changes to drinkable water quality, etc. I see references scattered across other sections, but no standalone treatment. Not sure if there's a protocol for discussion of environmental issues that's already being used in similar articles that could be copied. Earnestmidwest (talk) 19:06, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Environmental threats and damage  

message: The article lists the minimum width of the lake as 91 miles. I am confused about where this came from, as the lake at points is clearly less than 91 miles wide. This section, for example, is around 60 miles wide. https://i.imgur.com/E18fbUL.png WhiteWaterBottle (talk) 22:03, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minimum Width