Talk:Great Salt Lake

• Make sure the article is thoroughly copy-edited. See: Wikipedia:How to copy-edit
• Expand info on recent findings about mercury and selenium (sources: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]).
• Add basic Legacy Highway info about controversy, threat to the lake, etc.[8]
• Mention the "lake stink" and its causes, possibly with its own section.[9][10]
• Create a Recreation subsection of the Commerce section. Should include bird hunting, sailing, hiking on Antelope Island, etc.
• Add early superstitions about the lake (e.g. whirlpools) See:Great tales surrounding the Great Salt Lake
• Include info on recently discovered organisms in the lake (more info [11][12])
• Expand information on the causeways (plenty of information here).
• Create a History section.
• Mention proposals to dike parts of the lake for freshwater usage, including info on Willard Bay.
• Include some of the information from this Deseret News page.
• Include more specific information to back up vague comments like: "lake level varies greatly". Perhaps tables or historical lake levels, etc.?
• Seems to be an inconsistency with the Dead Sea article concerning the relative salinity of the two lakes. The GSL article says the salinity of the DS is 30.4% while the DS article says the dissolved salts are 30.4% NaCl and what I suppose is the salinity including all chemical "salts" averages 31.5%.
• The Encyclopædia Britannica references lead to a dead link. The new link is here

Completed or in-process:

• Use footnotes to cite sources.
• Include something about the importance for migratory birds in intro.
• Split Geography and hydrology into separate sections.
• Create a Salinity subsection of the Hydrology section.
• Add Great Salt Lake Monster info.
• Include an Origins subsection explaining how Lake Bonneville shrank to become GSL.
• Include info on oolitic sand.
• Include info on the lake's effect on the local climate. -Thank you Bob_rulz! :D
• Add an illustration with labels for major tributaries, islands, bays, nearby cities, etc.