Talk:Nile

Mean annual flow contribution corrections

Hey! I'm new around here. The new Ethiopian dam may bring new traffic to this page, so I believe that we should replace the 80% mentioned here with a more exact figure: http://www.fao.org/3/an530e/an530e.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iron Puma (talk • contribs) 21:51, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Rummskartoffel (talk) 09:20, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

I was thinking that "The Blue Nile, however, is the source of most of the water, containing 80% of the water and silt." should be changed to something like "The Blue Nile however, contributes to 57% of the mean annual flow rate at the mouth compared to the flow downstream at Dongola", with the source being http://www.fao.org/3/an530e/an530e.pdfIron Puma (talk) 23:45, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. The reference does not state what you want the text to state. Please see WP:SYNTH for why this is not accepted practice. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:19, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 March 2021

The Nile River is 4132 miles long, making it the longest River in the world - as per Encyclopedia Britannica. Being 132 miles longer than the Amazon River, the Nile edges the Amazon River to number 2. 68.134.135.123 (talk) 02:26, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. There is a clear note that the length can be measured from various points... And we usually do not cite Britannica if we don't need to because Britannica is a tertiary source; while we should base ourselves on secondary sources RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 03:08, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Length value (continued)

I'm trying to get a breakup of the length of the Nile by country.

I can't find it: not on Wiki or Google.

Anyone know?

(No find for the Amazon, too).

PS: I thought it was just due to my inability to “search”, but having seen the difficulty Wiki has had at citing its length… I guess you need to be “in the trade”.

PPS: By measuring in Google Maps, (with about 100 data points), I get c1900 km in Sudan (along the White Nile), and c1300 km in Egypt.

MBG02 (talk) 07:07, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Depth, width values

The values on this page for average depth (8-10m) and maximum width (2.8km) are unsourced, and I'm worried that any attempt to find a reference could lead to a citogenesis incident (other pages have values that appear copied word-for-word from Wikipedia.)

Can anybody find a reference to the river's average and maximum depths and widths that predates its presence on the article, so that there's evidence to back up those claims? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.44.100.2 (talk) 17:54, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Source

On both this article and at White Nile, there are (understandably) contradictory statements about the source of the White Nile. Some editors have made assertions of certainty where none as of today exists. I began to work on these, but realized that I just don't have the time right now. I'm apologizing for starting it and leaving it unfinished. Unschool 17:30, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

“Congo”

This article says that one of the countries that the Nile River passes by is “Congo”. After I clicked the hyperlink, it redirected me to the Democratic Republic of Congo wiki page. I do not know which is appropriate (Congo DR, DRC, etc.) so I did not commit any changes. I just wanted to point out that writing “Congo” without mentioning whether it is the republic of the Congo or the democratic republic of the Congo might cause ambiguity, so I request editing it.

NINJAHSTERco (talk) 20:53, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

I have updated the infobox to use the full name. I think that is the only place where the full name was not used. Vpab15 (talk) 13:11, 10 June 2022 (UTC)