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On June 19, 2007, seems everything between "Ecological Problems" to "Bioweapons" is verbatim from http://www.aralseainfo.com/ HighFlyer12 17:46, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello.
This article deals almost completely with the environmental disaster of Aral Sea. Basic facts such as surface area (as of 199x or 200x, for example), geography, climate and economy issues are almost completely missing. Given the fact that pre-1960 Aral was the 4th largest lake in the world, I could describe this article as stub.
However, at the moment I cannot spend time in making the text better.
This article has been tagged because it needs to have spelling and grammar corrected, be rearranged, wikified, and in fact almost completely rewritten. If possible, help from a more advanced Wikipedian or Cleanup Task Force member would be appreciated, as I am only a lowly Wikimite. Vanderdecken ℘ζξ 12:40, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Yeah, somebody went through and replaced the R in aral with an N throughout the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.176.107.26 (talk) 03:58, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I can't find the link to put this on my watchlist. I know. I suck. I have a lot of stubs on there, but this one, though not a stub, I feel is a rather important article. I want it on my list. Could anyone help me?
Oh, I forgot to sign in...Sorry!
CommKing 19:41, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi i'm called Phil and i think that what they are doing to the aral sea is wrong. I dont think that they should take all the water but only take it to one cotten plantation.
This is not a genral talk page but now you mention it I read that some fields that are been used to grow cotton are floodedmattypc 20:16, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
In the current situation area, it lists near the top of the paragraph that the sea had lost 60% of its surface area, thus leaving 40%. Later, however, it states that only 25% is left. Which is it?
The article says that the Soviet Union decided in 1918. The Soviet Union did not exists until 1922 and Wikipidia itself has an article on Soviet Union "The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian (colloquially known as Bolshevist Russia), Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. ". Please, correct the contradiction. Ruslan Moskalenko
This article should cover also the history of Aral Sea before the Soviet era. Aral Sea has been constantly changing, sometimes it has been even larger than before the current shrinking, other times it has been almost dried up when Amu Darya has flowed into the Caspian Sea instead.--Jyril 12:46, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Observers in 2006 claim the waters have returned 3 years earlier than expected (after World Bank August 2005 damn set up), previous port city of Aralsk is no longer 100 km from the coast but now only 25(!), and substantial fishing stocks (for export!) with returning fishing industry. I know this sounds preposterously optimistic, but everybody concerned seems to agree it is somehow happening. I edited the article to reflect this, using footnotes and lots of qualifiers in case the observers are seeing a few mirages, but I don't see how this can be ignored while we just parrot old news about what a calamity it is when reports are suddenly otherwise. Mare Nostrum 19:13, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
I totally agree with you. If nothing is done in 10 years the southern part will be either gone or almost gone.But i guess they value cotton over the sea.
Is there any particular reason why this image has been flipped so that the foreground is at the top of the frame? -- MacAddct1984 22:51, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
"On 9th/10th June 2007 BBC World broadcast a documentary called 'Back From The Brink?' made by Borna Alikhani and Guy Creasey that showed some of the changes in the region since the introduction of the Aklak Dam. His prediction is that within ten years Lake Superior in the United States will contain 15% less fresh water than it currently holds."
The second sentence needs to be made relevant to the topic, or it will soon be deleted I suppose, by me or someone else, as an archetypical non-sequitur.Mare Nostrum 11:13, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
The first sentence in the intro para talks about the Aral Sea in the past tense. As far as I can tell, it's still there and isn't gone yet. Is that just a typo or some previous vandalism? Bigheadjer 01:53, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
Is "Karalpakstan" a misspelling? Because there's no use of that name in any other part of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.252.229.213 (talk) 21:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
OK, so what the hell does it have anything to do with the Aral Sea? wikipedia is not an outlet for a separatist group's marketing campaign. >:( i'm gonna delete it in a few days if not one objects. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Completesentence (talk • contribs) 06:52, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
The image captioned "Aral sea seen by SPOT satellite" is hard to decipher. Is it a close-up of a small part of the shoreline? It certainly doesn't look like the whole sea. I think the caption needs to be clarified, and also needs a date. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.242.135 (talk) 22:07, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
