Talk:IJssel

Spelling

English is not my native language, so can please someone check this article and correct the wrong spelling and/or grammar? DaMatriX 16:22, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Don't know if your request is still current, but as I am restructuring the article, I'll comb through syntax, grammar and spelling as I progress. -- Curt Woyte 11:01, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Tourist & historical information

A short section with some tourist information would be useful. E.g. cycle routes, such as the Ijselldijk between Deventer and Hattem, historical towns of interest, riverside nature reserves such as the one at Hexsel, etc. Also something of the human history of the river would be useful -- settlements, history of the construction of the dykes and canal network fed by the river, & the Ijsell's role as a trade route of the Hanseatic league (the Zutphen-Deventer-Hattem-Zwolle Ijsell towns), etc. --Theranos 19:21, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Spelling: Ijssel or IJssel?

The Dutch spelling (IJssel) is probably incorrect in English. Does anyone know of a Wikipedia policy regarding that? Schildewaert (talk) 08:50, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Also, the pronuciation: [ˈɛi̯səl] is not explained in the link; there is  [ɛi], but not [ ɛi̯ ] with the extra accent underneath.77Mike77 (talk) 05:15, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

"IJ" and "ij" is the typical Dutch way to write Y/y in Dutch words. They use Y/y only in foreign words. IMHO, Yssel should be the correct transcription in English.--77.174.216.205 (talk) 08:00, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

The spelling 'Yssel' is not common in either Dutch or English sources. Transcribing it as such does not seem useful to me. See WP:ESTABLISHED. Ragnagord (talk) 11:55, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

You can hold out for WP:RS but don't blank valid information. Just don't let it have WP:UNDUE prominence: put it in a name section, footnote, or wikidata/wiktionary entry rather than the lead sentence. — LlywelynII 02:27, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

It is wrong but, no, there doesn't seem to be a MOS:DUTCH to remind people that WP:USEENGLISH WP:COMMONNAMEs applies here too. IJssel should be included as its foreign name within Dutch but English orthography just capitalizes first letters of digraphs. Of course, the "IJsselmeer" and several other articles will need to be corrected and moved to match. — LlywelynII 02:27, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Operation (Quick) Anger

Thanks for the information regarding the origine of the name of the river. As said in the article "The name IJssel (older Isla, Isala, from *Īsalō), is thought to derive from a Proto-Indo-European root *eis- "to move quickly" (cf. Old Norse eisa ("to race forward"), Latin ira ("anger")) On April 12, 1945, the Anglo-Canadian assult across the IJssel near the town Westervoort to Liberate Arnhem was codenamed "Operation Anger", also known as "Operation Quick Anger", see: Liberation of Arnhem — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.53.192.102 (talk) 04:50, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Mouth of the IJssel

I am confused about the following passage at the beginning of this article:

"It more immediately flows into the east-south channel around the Flevopolder, Flevoland which is kept at 3 metres below sea level. This body of water is then pumped up into the IJsselmeer."

I don't know which channel is meant here (perhaps the Kattendiep and Keteldiep?). Problem is that the IJssel, Kattendiep, Keteldiep and IJsselmeer are in an open connection, a boat can travel from the IJssel to the IJsselmeer unimpeded. Manual pumping is not needed, as this passage seems to imply. Also, as far as I'm aware, the mouth of the IJssel is not 3 meters below sea level. It's slightly below sea level. 77.248.209.75 (talk) 21:25, 4 November 2024 (UTC)