Talk:Merrimack River

message: Congratulations! Your article is a great start on this waterway. As you think about improving it, please add a few more inline references to support the facts. Also, check out Ohio River, Mississippi River and others for ideas on expanding the article. --CTSWyneken(talk) 21:08, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Passed 

message: This article has been brought up for delisting at Good Article Review because it does not meet the following criteria at WP:WIAGA:
*Criteria 2: Insufficient referencing.  This article makes many claims, which are not linked directly to the source of those claims via inline citations.  There are very few references at ALL.
*Criteria 3: Insufficiently broad.  Many aspects of the Merrimack River are missing, such as history as an industrial center, ecology, tributaries.  It needs some expanding before it achieves this aspect of GA.
As someone born in Nashua and raised in Hudson NH, I wish this article was better.  I may improve it myself in the future, but I must admit, this is well below GA level. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 06:01, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  a [[WP:GA/R|Good Article Review]] has been initiated 

message: A strong consensus of editors has proposed that this article be delisted from the Good Article list, as it does not meet the good article criteria at this time.  For an archived discussion that arrived at this decision, see: Wikipedia:Good article review/Archive 17.  If this article CAN be brought up to standard, please feel free to renominate it in the future.  Good luck and happy editing! --Jayron32|talk|contribs 18:46, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Delisted 

message: I'm sorry, I know this is going to get some people excited. I'm moving this out prior to replacing it with one that cites sources:
:"The name Merrimack is believed to have been adopted by early European settlers from Merruasquamack, a name meaning "swift water place" that given by Native American tribes for the portion of the river between Manchester, New Hampshire and Lowell, Massachusetts. A number of tribes occupied the watershed and gave the river several different names.
:The original Euro-American spelling of the river's name was Merrimac, but the river is now named Merrimack.  Both variants were used in early days and can continue to be seen in the present day in the names of two New England towns."
The problem is, I can't find out who on earth believes what is affirmed to be believed. I did a search on that weird name and all I can find on it is a series of copied web sites, which all use the same name and all use the same words with minor variations. This is a copyright violation of some sort on their part. Here it is uncited. Frankly it looks like original research by some eager beaver anxious to add his interpretation of a possible Indian name to the pile. Since Algonquian is imperfectly known and that name is imperfectly known it is not possible to say with certainty what it means or what its original form was in English phonetic spelling. If there is an author of that name or if anyone knows the author of that name theory let him speak up. Otherwise I must take it as original research slipped in there casually without references. As for the Euro-American, what kind of hoaky term is that? It is part of the copyright violation. And those assertions of the original spelling totally contradict the sources I can find. And as for the modern names reflecting the ancient usages, well, no evidence. Pure guess work. I'll be replacing this with new paragraphs today.Dave 12:26, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: FYI - those "copied" pages are wikipedia scrapes, which are perfectly fine because of the open-source license. But they do cause a problem, as you have found: Online searches are sometimes swamped by wikipedia copies, so that incorrect information in an article begins to look legitimate because it is repeated. - DavidWBrooks 13:56, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hoaky etymology

message: Considering the flood of '07 and especially those of '36, '38, and 1852, don't we spend too much time on this one event that just happened to be a big deal to us at the time?  I think we need to say a lot less about this one flood, and a little more about historic flooding and what has been done to the river to control it.  Thoughts and/or volunteers? Thanks, CSZero (talk) 17:31, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  '06 Flood 

message: Please look at the Merrimack Valley article.  This article does not seem well named.  In Massachusetts we use this specific term in one way, in New Hampshire we use it another way, and people familiar with geography and topography use it another way!  Given the variety of ways in which this term is used, perhaps Merrimack Valley shouldn't be a regular article, but rather should be a disambiguation page. 
Please see the discussion at Talk:Merrimack_Valley.  RK (talk) 17:49, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal: Make '''[[Merrimack Valley]]''' a disambiguation page 

message: I've never used a talk page before, but there is something in this article which i must address.  There is a photo, "View from River Street in Haverhill, Massachusetts."  This photo was taken near where the Friend's Landing gay club used to be, which is across from Central Plaza, which is on Water Street, NOT River Street.  I have changed this a few times in the last year or so, and it keeps changing back to River Street.  Please note this picture is of Water Street.
Thank you,
Haverhill Resident. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.74.8.247 (talk) 14:27, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Caption of photo

message: Can someone please add this data? It seems to exist for many articles about river systems.
Cbmccarthy (talk) 11:36, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The total watershed area was already in the article. I have merged in the Merrimack River Watershed article, which lists the major subwatersheds but does not provide their areas. (Not sure if you were asking for subwatershed areas as well.) --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:45, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Drainage area of Merrimack River and tributaries?

message: I moved a just-placed aerial photo of the mouth of the river into the Infobox, since it is informative of the size and development of the Merrimack, and moved down a pretty but uninformative shot of the river in Lowell. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 12:17, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos