Talk:Shoal (disambiguation)

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On April 27, this article was nominated for deletion. The discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Shoal. The result was keep. —Xezbeth 09:43, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

Proposal for better disambig

see Talk:Sandbank. Cuvette 04:37, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

proposal implemented/ Cuvette 18:25, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

need to move history from bar (landform) to the Shoal history....in order to complete the changes from re-organization. Cuvette 18:25, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bar (landform) or Bar (gold mining)

I discovered the discrepancy by looking up bar while prepping to write Foster Bar, a locality in the Fraser Canyon in British Columbia. The canyon has a whole series of such placenames - Emory Bar, Hill's Bar, Sailor Bar, Boston Bar, Kanaka Bar, French Bar, Big Bar, China Bar and more, many of historical importance. Shoal doesn't cut it as somewhere for bar (landform) to redirect to, given gold-bearing or other ore-bearing bars, or just riparian bars in general; I'll link this query to the mining and gold rush wikiprojects for other input, but my gut says bar (mining) is the way to go....(and bar then needs to be a disambi page)Skookum1 (talk) 19:01, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The definition in the article Bar (landform) appears to me to be incomplete. It adequately covers sand bars as marginal marine landforms, but ignores alluvial sand bars along creeks and rivers. From what I have seen, the use of the term "bar" in gold mining almost always refers to alluvial sand bars. The remedy would appear to me to expand the definition in Bar (landform) to be more complete. Plazak (talk) 20:11, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not just sand but also rock/gravel/boulder....the Fraser has hundreds such; they can be out in the current or a reference to a beach in a bend; in placer mining it doesns't have to be sand. Just an observation; I think bar (mining) is needed as a type of bar (landform); typically a freshwater feature, yes, when in regard to mining....Skookum1 (talk) 00:44, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And I didn't think to make it "gold mining" because I've seen bars worked for other than gold (moly usually); but bar (gold mining) makes perfect sense. List of gold-bearing bars on the Fraser River or just List of bars on the Fraser River (since there are many that are not gold-bearing) has occurred to me at points, but I still ahve towkr to do elsewhere....(British Columbia Gold Rushes being incomplete....Skookum1 (talk) 00:48, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]