Talk:Delta River

GA review

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Nominator: Generalissima (talk · contribs) 12:14, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

Reviewer: A.Cython (talk · contribs) 22:56, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

Overall, I enjoyed reading the article about a remote and relatively untouched natural beauty. The article is pretty close to GA status, but it needs a little bit to smooth some edges, which can be easily fixed. My comments are listed below. A.Cython(talk) 22:56, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

• @A.Cython: Responded to everything; thank you! Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 00:29, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Various

• No edit wars
• Figures are ok along with appropriate figure captions
• Earwig's Copyvio Detector highest result was 28.6%, mainly in the use of names, so all ok
• Neutral

Prose

• both lived in the region, and hunted does not appear to need the comma
  • Fixed.-G
• it lies in a valley which descends change to "it lies in a valley that descends}}
  • Fixed.-G
• of the fans, lessening to about replace "lessening" with decreasing
  • Fixed.-G
• is lower than its east. something missing here, do you mean "east bank"?
  • Fixed.-G
• Alaska Range also lie within lies?
  • Fixed.-G
• The upper portions of the basin, between the Alaska Range and the Amphitheater Mountains, contains large amounts contains → contain
  • Fixed.-G
• The soils of the Delta River basin consists of consists → consist
  • Fixed.-G
• agricultural developments were begun around Delta Junction "were begun" → began
  • Fixed.-G
• which across the river. runs across
  • Fixed.-G
• Recreational boating is also popular along the river and the Tangle Lakes, finish the sentence with "." and a citation (which also supports the quote "one of the few easily accessible wild and scenic rivers in Alaska"), please.
  • Fixed.-G

Sources

• Note that Stout (1973) and Reger (2002) references are not used in the main text, so perhaps you want to move them into "Further reading" section?
• Checked citations 1, 3, 16, 20, 24, 30 and these are ok. Some were not ok, see below.

Issues

• much of the land is managed by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources How exactly reference 15 based on the online pdf that I found supports the particular statement, maybe I am blind. I think you meant p. 1, unless you are referring to a different pdf.
  • Fixed.-G
• citation 27 it states "sheep" at p.21 while you mention in the text "dall sheep". It is on page 19 where "dall sheep" is mentioned. Note the same thing happens with citation 26.
  • Well, we only need one of the citations to mention "dall sheep", so I changed Higgs to include p. 19 -G

Final comments

Thank for making the changes so quickly. Congratulations in bringing one more article to GA status! A.Cython(talk) 00:45, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Launchballer (talk) 21:17, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Delta River

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• ... that the Delta River (pictured) is likely older than the mountain range it cuts across?

• Source: Dingman, S.L.; Samdie, H.R.; Saboe, D.L.; Lynch, M.J.; Slaughter, C.W. (1971). Hydrologic Reconnaissance of the Delta River and Its Drainage Basin, Alaska (Report). Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. https://erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/items/81b728f7-6b65-4ef8-e053-411ac80adeb3 pg. 3

• • Reviewed: Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Soviet_anarchism

5x expanded by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 137 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 14:14, 16 February 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is new enough and long enough. Image is free, from the Bureau of Land Management's Flickr. Hook fact is cited and confirmed, though stated in more academic language than the hook. The copyvio detector detects too much similarity with spotcamera.com, but that website just screams "Mirror", so no issues. Good to go!  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:37, 19 February 2026 (UTC)