Talk:Lake St. Clair, North America

Are there other Lake St. Clairs not in North America? -- Zoe

True or false??

True or false: There is a reason not to consider this lake one of the Great Lakes BESIDES being small in size.

True. First of all, part of what makes the 5 Great Lakes "great" is their size -- they are all among the largest lakes in the world -- they aren't "great" because of any other quality. But to go to your guestion, the Great Lakes are as well-defined in common parlance as is New England. Few would argue that New York (especially Long Island) or New Jersey should also be part of New England because they were primarily settled by English Congregationalists in the mid 1600s. Growing up in Michigan (the Great Lake State) we were taught about the five Great Lakes, that you could use the word "HOMES" to remember their names, etc. Lake St. Clair is a much smaller lake, and is never thought of as a "great lake."

Somehow in all the recent moves the actual article went missing.

I restored the article to Lake Saint Clair, North America. I don't really have any strong opinion about what the title should be -- but please make sure that the article is actually there after you're done moving and "fixing" redirects. Bkonrad | Talk 22:26, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I just wanted to point out that I think it's pretty silly that this article is at Lake Saint Clair, North America. This article should be at Lake Saint Clair or Lake St. Clair given that (a) this lake crosses an international border (making it a significant lake), (b) the other Lake Saint Clairs don't even have their own articles yet, (c) this lake is part of the Great Lakes system, which makes it significant (you wouldn't put Lake Geneva at Lake Geneva, Europe or Lake Geneva, France and Switzerland), even though there is a Lake Geneva, Wisconsin and a Lake Geneva, Florida). Darkcore 09:20, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Lots of lakes cross borders. It doesn't make them significant.
The other Lake Saint Clairs don't have articles yet because, in part, we've been too busy on talk pages to write them
It is as much a part of the Great Lakes System as a lot of canals that don't have their own articles yet either.

- Hephaestos|§ 09:23, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The other Lake Saint Clairs that we're not writing about "because we're too busy on talk pages to write them," as you say, are not as significant as this one. This lake is larger than the other Lake Saint Clairs AFAIK, which to me, says that this Lake Saint Clair is more significant than the others. But, whatever -- I'm not going to argue this point anymore. Darkcore 10:00, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Nonsense, Darkcore. The Tasmanian one is very well known indeed, as it forms the southern end of the most famous national park in the whole of Tasmania. Tannin