Template talk:Infobox body of water

message: This template currently has a slot for the countries making up the "basin" -- presumably the drainage basin -- of a body of water, but none for the bordering countries. There is a big difference in many cases -- consider the Black Sea, whose drainage basin includes Switzerland (via the Danube) and the Bay of Bengal, whose drainage basin includes Tibet (via the Brahmaputra). Could we include a "bordering countries" slot? --Macrakis (talk) 19:34, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Bordering countries

message: Does this template have a parameter that can be used for topographic maps?  has  and  while  has  and  that can be used for such things. Volcanoguy 12:12, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Topo maps 

message: 'Types' links to 'Body_of_water#Waterbody_types' which is a dead link. It should be changed to 'Body_of_water#Types' Ted BJ (talk) 03:33, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: — hike395 (talk) 12:00, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead internal anchor link 

message: Could this infobox please be edited to allow for embedded infoboxes and child templates? This would be especially useful for bodies of water which are also Protected areas (such as Ramsar Wetlands, national parks or marine reserves), which currently need to use Template:Infobox landform to embed Template:Infobox protected area instead. Turnagra (talk) 06:41, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Already done Use . See Firth of Tay for an example.  – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:43, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, my bad! I was busy scouring it for an |embed= parameter, but that makes sense - thank you! Turnagra (talk) 18:52, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 13 May 2023 

message: There is already a useful Date_Flooded parameter which shows when the body of water came into existence. However there is nothing to show when it ceased to exist.
I have been studying lakes for the last 3 years and have found many examples in wikipedia of 'Ancient' lakes, lakes which have dried out or are about to dry out (e.g. Aral Sea) or where the dam has broken.
Sadly the instances of lakes drying out is increasing due to manmade interference with the water supply to the lake, and/or global warming increasing evaporation. There are also cases, especially with glacial lakes and landslide lakes, where the 'natural' dam has broken naturally or been broken by man in the name of safety to downstream places.
There are also many examples of Reservoirs where the manmade dam has broken. (e.g. Sanford Lake) While it could be argued that these should have used 'Infobox dam' instead of this Infobox, it is a fact that about 80% of the reservoir articles actually use this 'Infobox body of water', so the argument for adding this new parameter holds for them as well, just on saving the sheer amount of effort to changing thousands of article to use a different infobox.
If others agree with this suggestion, it would seem a very simple and safe parameter to add as it would not affect any existing article?MWchat (talk) 11:20, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should we add a new parameter of Date_Drained? 

message: I suggest that  be moved to the subheader. It makes little sense for it to be all the way in the body, completely separate from the name by the image and the location parameters. Đại Việt quốc (talk) 22:07, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: . Note that other infoboxes I checked are inconsistent about this. If anyone else feels strongly that this should be reverted, feel free to ping me and I'll do so. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:28, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 16 November 2023