Talk:Harbour

message: Harbours aren't just in cities, surely? What would be a better way of saying this?? Nevilley 11:35 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)
Mention "natural harbours" too. -- Tarquin 11:49 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)
Erm and at the risk of asking a really stupid question, are they always coastal? Can you have an inland harbour on a river etc?? Not in the UK (I think) but I wondered about elsewhere ... Nevilley 16:51 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)
: ah - already dealt with, I see! :) Nevilley
::It seems to have disappeared again; and it's an interesting question
::There are ports not on the coast; Manchester, Bruges, Houston spring to mind, but they aren’t necessarily harbours;
::There are harbours on lakes (Jinga, Kigowa), but maybe lakes also have coasts.
::A harbour on a navigable river could fit the bill (Manaus? Vicksburg? Aswan? Belgrade? Basle?)
::How about a place with "harbour" in the name, but not even on water (like Cold Harbor, Virginia)? Swanny18 (talk) 16:35, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: First comments

message: Erm ... in light of the most recent edit, clearly we need to decide whether we're using British spelling (harbour) or American (harbor). Are there any guidelines about this?  The Singing Badger 17:02, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Well because the page title is using American spelling perhaps it should use American spelling of "harbour" as "harbor". Or if there is a concensis move this page to make the page title use British spelling. -- 203.220.170.102 12:31, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: I think this page SHOULD be moved to conform not only to the spelling on the page, but also to the majority of contributors to this page, who insist on using British spelling. -- AxSkov 13:08, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's a stub article, let us give it some time to get expanded a bit before we try and settle out the spelling issues.  In general, I don't care what the article name is or the spelling convention, as long as we remember to keep the native spelling for actual places.  For example, for American areas it will always be (for example) Copper Harbor, Michigan and not "Copper Harbour", likewise, it should always be "Sydney Harbour" and not "Sydney Harbor".  Ahh, the joys of multiple spellings.  -- Kaszeta 13:28, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text:  Why not use both spellings for the page name such as Harbour, Harbor or Harbour/Harbor (not sure if this is allowed) to keep everyone happy. This could be applied to the other pages with similar regional variations (ie. colour, honour, organisation, etc). Just a suggestion. -- 203.164.184.20 01:04, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: We don't actually need to establish which is the largest natural harbour in order to disprove the claim that it is Port Jackson/Sydney Harbour. According to its Wikipedia article, San Francisco Bay has a surface area of 1040 to 4160 square kilometres, depending on exactly how you count it. According to its article, Port Jackson has a surface area of 55 square kilometers. No contest on size then. I can see no reason that would exclude SFB from being a natural harbour whilst not excluding PJ; both are largely surrounded by land; both have relatively narrow entrances; both are used as places of shelter by commercial and naval shipping; both contain major port areas.
So I think I've proven that the claim that Port Jackson is the world's largest working natural harbour is wrong; I shall remove it from the article. -- Chris j wood 17:09, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest harbour reprise 

message: I have proposed the merge from Natural harbor as I think the separate article adds no information and there seems no reason to develop two separate articles.--A  Y  Arktos 11:41, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from Natural harbor 

message: Please do not move this to Harbour (haven). Haven is implied in the standard English usage of this word and thus this article should remain at the standard title. pschemp | talk 23:40, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Move