Talk:Fishing weir

message: The construction and use of a fishing weir is totally different from a fishtrap, why you want to merge? A fishtrap is a small cage made of chicken wire. The fishing weir is, well, a weir. --Vuo 12:49, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Going to respond over at fishtrap. cmh 17:20, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
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message: Sorry, I don't know how I did it because I was in preview mode and didn't save but somehow I messed up a previous citation ref= "Nishmura" unfortunately I don't know how to find a previous version in order to fix it. If someone could fix it that would be great. Thanks! Elizabethfranklin (talk) 17:15, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Elizabeth- Think I fixed it, please check me. Eric talk 17:30, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I've returned the information you removed as this needs to be discussed and your edit summaries didn't make sense. First of all the lead is a summary of the article and doesn't need citations provided the information is cited in the article. Secondly, who says the earliest known fish weir is only 8,000 years old? The information that you added after just before this edit says that a weir has been found that is possibly 14,000 years old. The information you removed came from the Nishimura book that says something like "the use of fish weirs predatates the sapiens phase of human evolution". This suggests to me that evidence had been found that early humans used fish weirs - not necessarily that that are complete weirs from this period still extant. What evidence do you have that this information is out of date? Richerman   (talk) 17:58, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Somehow I messed up a citation....  

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message: The  section makes no mention of the well-documented fish weirs maintained by Australian Aborigines for centuries.  They included some used for harvesting the annual eel migrations in south-west Victoria, and (IIRC) others used on NSW rivers.  This is a significant omission.  I may be able to correct it, but it won't be today; so please feel free to do so if you can.  yoyo (talk) 00:39, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Having just now read the article Fish trap, where I see the Australian fish weirs described quite well, I see no good reason why this article should not be merged into that one.  A positive reason to merge is this: Fish weirs are just one type or class of fish trap.  See next. yoyo (talk) 01:02, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australian fish weirs 

message: Reasons to merge: 
* Fish weirs are just one type or class of fish trap.
* Simpler to maintain one page than two.
yoyo (talk) 01:06, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems to me to be worth considering. Eric talk 01:27, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

text: Oppose - a reasonable suggestion but :Fish trap is already quite long and having a stand-alone articles for individual types is not a problem. For fishing weirs there is a significant archaeological and historical interest which is absent from many of the other types fish traps which supports the retention of a separate article. It may be worth noting that there are specific articles already for eleven of the types of fish traps listed in the table. Should these all be merged back into :Fish trap? I think not.  Velella  Velella Talk   07:23, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

text: Oppose, per Velella's arguments. Eric talk 14:11, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge into [[Fish trap]]