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Panama Canal

This article is a Featured article candidates, and a very important waterway and technological acheivement. If anyone has any ideas or critiques please post. If you have any concerns or critiques please address them, or edit. Raskolnikov The Penguin 00:01, 2005 July 20 (UTC)

• First of all, you need to remove it from FAC. Secondly the picture of the map is copyrighted. I'm pretty sure it's easy to find a public domain map of the panama canal, note that most government-created images are public domain.Borisblue 01:47, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
• Since I had just taken the time to type all this up on the FAC page before it was deleted, I wanted to rewrite the info here in case it could benefit anyone: For everyone's info, I recently came back from Panama and took WAY TOO MANY PICTURES of the Panama canal and placed them in the Commons. Most of them were so similar that I only bothered to put the ones I liked the most. You may want to take a look at them in case they are useful to the article. Especially the pictures Image:Ship passing through Panama Canal 02.jpg and Image:Ship passing through Panama Canal 01.jpg may be useful, even though there is already a picture of the Miraflores locks. There is no picture of the little trains that guide the boats though, as in Image:Trains guiding boats at Panama Canal.jpg. If slightly different shots are needed, I can see what I can find if you leave a message on my talk page. On other critiques, couldn't there be more on the French attempt at the canal (especially with the panama scandals article being as small as it is), on the exacerbation of the disease problem during construction when they believed the disease to be spread by rats and dug water-filled trenches around all the beds which only increased the mosquito population, and on the economic impact of the canal on the country currently? Some of it may be unncessary, but these are just suggestions. -Dozenist talk 03:12, 20 July 2005 (UTC)