Talk:List of rivers of the United States

message: I propose listing each river name only once on this page. As it is we already have 4 White Rivers listed. If this page apporaches completeness, we would have 28. And 46 Black Rivers and 30 Red Rivers, etc. Why don't we just list the disambiguation page once. White River is already set up as a page with all the White Rivers and each state river page already lists all the rivers in each state (theoretically). I notice that the White River page already lists more White Rivers than this page. I am concerned that this page will become too difficult to use (too long to be useful) when it reaches several thousand entries. Maybe we should retrict it to important rivers and leave the all rivers lists on the state rivers pages. Rmhermen 13:27, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)
:I still like the idea of a central list of all rivers in the U.S. not just by state. I've been thinking for a while that the page is going to have to be broken up, perhaps alphabetically, and have been thinking about possible ways to do that, based on other pages. It's definitely approaching a size where this is going to become an issue soon. I think it would be eventually several thousand entries, even if names are listed only once.  I would prefer breaking up the page to restricting to "important" rivers, because I think that becomes a judgement call that easily breaks down and would require policing to keep off the constant addition of everyone's favorite smaller rivers (which may in fact have unelaborated historical significance). I'd rather be a happy inclusionist than a mean exclusionist in this regard. Maybe this page could become a pointer to the state page lists and the sub-alphabetical pages.-- Decumanus | Talk 15:31, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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message: Would it be worth it to sort it by flow, as in List of Florida rivers?
:I would say that would not be a good idea. The main reason is that the list is too large for that. It would involve many,many nested html lists--like List of Ontario rivers, except it would be much bigger. Nested lists render slowly on many computers in different browser software, to my experience. Also, I personally like the alphabetized version as an overall directory.  I think the watershed lists work well for small sets, but become unusable on larger one. Perhaps start a separate article List of rivers in the United States by watershed? -- Decumanus 07:47, 2004 Nov 21 (UTC)
There's such a list developing at List of rivers of the Americas.  It's sorted by major rivers and tributaries. It's not all that complete yet. dr-t  —Preceding undated comment added 00:51, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Sort by Flow

message: If there are no strong objections, I'd like take on the task sometime soon of breaking this up alphabetically so that it can continue to be comfortably expanded and made more complete.  (At present, some states' rivers are very much underrepresented here.)  I couldn't find a wikipedia guideline for multiple-page lists (perhaps because their existence is a source of contention), but here are a couple of options: List of songs by name, which is divided into List of songs by name: A and so forth; and List of colleges and universities, which is divided into List of colleges and universities starting with A etc.  Personally I prefer the former format.  Any thoughts?
Also, I'd like to implement Rmherman's above suggestion of having each name be listed only once, with a link to the disambig page, perhaps adding a " - Disambiguation" note in lieu of the state name(s).
Objections/suggestions? Malepheasant 20:18, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Alphabetical breakup

message: Does anyone know who is officially responsible for naming the rivers, if anyone? `South Nashua (talk) 18:37, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming Body

message: This river has average discharge of 35,000 CFS. Does it count as a US river?
Cbmccarthy (talk) 22:26, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saint John River (Bay of Fundy)