Talk:Lake Como

message: About the name in English: I find that "Lake of Como" is the most accurate, and it is the literally translation of the Italian name "Lago di Como". Looking for it on Google I also found "Como Lake", but it misleads into thinking that "Como" might be the name of the lake itself, while it's not, it's just the main town on the lake's shores.
And its real name "Lario" is used very rarely, so I don't think it should be used, I'm placing a redirect for it now. Laz 23:19 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
:I know it isn't a perfectly accurate translation, but in English, the lake is known as "Lake Como" (59,400 Google hits on English-language pages) not "Lake of Como" (1,960 hits on English-language pages). As this is the English-language Wikipedia, the convention is to give thing the most common name used in an English-language context. Therefore, I'm moving this to Lake Como. --Camembert
::As you wish, but I'm still deeply convinced that this is a big mistake and it misleads people into thinking that Como is the name of the lake, while it is not at all. Google hits give the most common name, and this generally works for our purposes; but if the most common name is wrong, IMHO a good Encyclopedia should point it out and list the correct name. But I'm sure not going to argue anymore about this, we're not here to argue. I'll leave it up to someone else. Laz 12:40 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)
:::If you want to explain details about the lake's name, pointing out that in Italian the lake isn't called "Como" as such, then great - do so in the article. But the title should be the most common name used in an English-language context (see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names)). Incidentally, the Columbia, Macmillan and Hutchinson encyclopaedias all call this "Lake Como", as does the Penguin Encyclopaedia of Places. --Camembert
::::I was thinking the same thing actually... a note similar to Kings Cross station's one. Ok, thanks for the tip. Laz 13:08 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)
When I saw "Lake of Como" I said "Whaaa!? Who let the Italians run amuck!" :-) It may be a fine literal translation, but "Lake of X" is extremely uncommon, Lake of the Woods is the only one that comes to mind. To borrow a line from books on software localization, one should give precedence to native speakers' ideas about what sounds right. Stan 05:49, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I moved Lago di Como back to Lake Como. -- User:Docu
"From running a search on Google one might conclude that "Lake Como" is much more common, in English, than "Lake of Como"." - I removed this note because Google results are rather ephmeral and not necessarily a reliable source either. People who are that interested should come read this talk page. Stan 16:32, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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message: Although the book is related to the Villa d’Este, I didn’t find this link to Amazon particulary informative
*Tales of Risotto: Culinary Adventures from Villa d'Este by Jean Govoni Salvadore and Luciano Parolari. 
I’ve removed it rom the article for now—Ian Spackman 23:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: addition of the book was probably link spam. See User_talk:66.108.157.73 --Mattarata 22:58, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Risotto book link 

message: This article includes superb photos. If you took them, uploaded them, added them, or captioned them, please accept my thanks. —Ian Spackman 14:37, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
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message: Are there fish in the lake? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.206.165.24 (talk) 10:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fish ?

message: The cited bit about the lake's pollution had been deleted. I added it back in as the information seemed both relevant and well supported. Let me know if I missed something.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.211.119.246 (talk) 20:19, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pollution 

message: In the German article, a depth of 425 meters for the lake is mentionend. This is a very new information, in 2007 scientists found out the new depth of the lake. This is the information, I have found on the German wikipedia article of Lake Como. But there are no sources for this information.
Does anyone know any about the new depth (if so, wikipedia needs some more information) or is 410 m still correct? thanks, --Holger1974 (talk) 11:34, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Depth of the lake 

message: Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of Einstein's personal life was the fact that he had an illegitimate daughter whose existence was only known to a few during Einstein's lifetime.  In fact the rest of world was unaware that Einstein had a third child until 1986, long after his death.  
Einstein impregnated Mileva Maric during a vacation at Lake Como in April of 1901 (See Walter Isaacson's biography pg 63-67).  This was an extremely fateful vacation, as it lead to Einstein marrying Maric and the birth of their daughter Lieserl.  It is unclear what happened to Lieserl, but most likely she either died or was adopted.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.161.215.195 (talk) 06:55, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Einstein's Fateful Visit to Lake Como 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: hovering over or clicking the Villa_Serbelloni link takes you to the Rockefeller Foundation link 
(i would assume because it's the next valid internal link on the page?)
because there is no English version of that page yet (Italian, Deutsche, and Chinese versions of the Villa_Serbelloni page exist though)
but i also found this subsection about the villa on another page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellagio,_Lombardy#Villa_Serbelloni
and that page is in just about every language ...
so.......... should the link point to that subsection for the villa on the Bellagio article instead of the main article only in three languages?
just a thought... was gonna just make the change, but then figured posting the thought here might be better before taking further action
Cheers,
Chris Heath (talk) 06:57, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Villa Serbelloni internal link weirdnesss 

message: The article currently says: 'Lake Como is fed primarily by the Adda, which enters the lake near Colico and flows out at Lecco. This geological conformation makes the southwestern branch a dead end, and so Como, unlike Lecco, is often flooded.' I'm not sure that is a sufficient explanation for the reportedly frequent flooding of Lecco - if indeed that is a fact, since this is not referenced anyway. Unless under the influence of sustained high winds from the northern quarter, there should be no particular water level difference between different parts of the lake, and I'd expect these to be small differences anyway.  thanks Geopersona (talk) 17:25, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flooding 

message: As a resident of Como and a major contributor to the city's article (https://xtools.wmcloud.org/authorship/en.wikipedia.org/Como/) I felt compelled to add a note to swimmers to be cautious when deciding to dive and swim in Lake Como - each summer the local media reports 5/10 cases of people drowning after carelessly diving and swimming where they think it is safe; Lake Como instead is quite dangerous, especially for unexperienced and casual swimmers: in many places the waters get quickly very deep (15 meters / 50 feet) a few meters from the shore; the lake's waters can also be very cold, even during hot summer days, and cause a cold shock to careless divers, which has resulted in many deaths, even among healthy young people and athletes. Swimming is also dangerous because of unexpected and sudden underwater currents and whirlpools. Since the page is visited on average 1500 times a day, mostly for touristic info, i hope this note of caution contributes to avoid another preventable death. Itemirus (talk) 06:32, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swimming