User talk:Hamm9

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Hartwell Lake

Hi Hamm,

Welcome to Wikipedia! Your edits to Hartwell Lake are looking really good. I love that you're adding so much well-sourced information--always more difficult to do than just writing stuff, but much more valuable to Wikipedia. And the section on Nancy Hart is a pretty interesting read--I'd never heard of her before. Here are a couple suggestions:

1. it looks like the Corps of Engineers site has some great, free images of Hartwell lake in its early days, and it would be cool to have one or two of those up in this article. Have you ever added an image to Wikimedia Commons before? It seems complicated at first, but it gets easy once you know become familiar with it. If you want more help on adding these images, ping me back or (for an even quicker response), just ask at the Teahouse Q&A board.
2. These sentences need some re-phrasing, I think: "The Droughts and water levels of Lake Hartwell 1989 was the first year the lake hit a level 3 dropping to its lowest level during the drought that year. 2008 was the second time the lake hit a level 3." I'm also not sure what a "level 3" is. Could you explain it or link to it?
3. The section on Fishing is a perfect place to start putting in more wikilinks to related pages, such as species of fish in the lake. I added one to "catfish" to show you what I mean.

Feel free to drop me a line if you have more questions. And as I said the Teahouse Q&A board is at your disposal as well--most of the Hosts have a lot more experience than I do, so they will probably have even more helpful tips to share - J-Mo ^{Talk to Me} _{Email Me} 20:33, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

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Sarah (talk) 15:42, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

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