Talk:Big Bushkill Creek

message: Bushkill Creek (Monroe County) and Big Bushkill Creek appear to be referring to the same stream.  Also according to USGS GNIS the official name is just "Bush Kill" so that should probably be the name of the combined page (Bush Kill currently redirects to Big Bushkill Creek).  Kmusser 18:53, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this merge would help in that, The Bushkill Creek he is referring to is at Bushkill Creek, while Bushkill Creek (Monroe County) is referring to Big Bushkill Creek (which USGS calls Bush Kill).Kmusser 14:02, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and merged the content, it needs an admin to move the page to Bush Kill.  Kmusser 14:47, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Ok, do you know what you're looking at there?  Each GNIS entry is a different stream.  Each entry links to a page giving exact coordinates and further links to maps showing where that stream is.  Currently only two of those have Wikipedia articles.  The article at Bushkill Creek describes the last stream there and that one is fine. The Big Bushkill Creek and Bushkill Creek (Monroe County) articles both describe the stream named Bush Kill on the Flatbrookville map (the 4th entry).  Note there is nothing in Pennsylvania named Big Bushkill Creek.  And I'm sorry you don't like the name, but that's what its name is.  I might not like it either but I'm not going to propose calling it Musser Creek on my whim.  Now Big Bushkill Creek is listed as an alternative map, but I'd rather use the streams official name, if someone goes looking for Big Bushkill Creek on a topo map they aren't going to find it.  Kmusser 03:33, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm confused as to what's wrong with Bush Kill.  That is its name, why would you call it something else?  We could use Big Bushkill Creek, but since that's not how it shows up on maps I think that's confusing.  If that is the more common local usage we probably should use that, but then we should also have a citation for it.  Bush Kill (stream) indicates you're disambiguating it from some other Bush Kill that isn't a stream which is not the case here (there is another Bush Kill, but that's also a stream so that wouldn't help).  If you just don't like the word Kill - well take that up with the English language.  -- Kmusser (talk) 22:33, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Meanwhile I'm going to redo the merge but I'll leave it at Big Bushkill Creek for now.-- Kmusser (talk) 22:37, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Kill is a descriptor, naming something Xyz Kill Creek is sort of like Xyz Stream Stream, but ok.  Kmusser (talk) 11:56, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I learned something new. Dekimasuよ! 00:33, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

text: I didn't say it was never done, there are examples of streams called Xyz River Creek or Xyz Brook Creek as well.  Just because streams with redundant descriptions exist, doesn't mean it should be the preferred method of naming. Kmusser (talk) 15:41, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

text: To clarify a redundant description is fine if, as in the case of Schuylkill River it has become the established name of the feature.  What I'm objecting to is Wikipedia adding a redundant description to the name in a case where it isn't. Kmusser (talk) 15:59, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll leave it as is for now, I'm not going to push the rename if I'm the only one supporting it.  I'll see about those redlinks, most of those are too small to really deserve an article, but they could be redirected to their respective parent streams. Kmusser (talk) 20:31, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
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