Talk:Wei River (Shandong and Henan)

Dubious

Note the termination of the 卫河 waaaay before the bay and the much shorter length given by its Chinese article

The '''Wei''' or '''Wey River''' [[Shandong Province]] and [[Henan Province]] is a {{convert|283|km|mi|adj=on|sp=us}} long tributary of the [[Hai River]].

I'm sure this 'information' came from somewhere but it needs to be specifically cited and heavily annotated since it's patently untrue. The river used to run into Bohai Bay on its own course and only acts as 'tributary' of the Hai in the sense that it is actually tributary to the Grand Canal which can be understood as tributary to the Hai system. Absolutely no one actually calls the stretch from Dezhou to the Hai to the Bohai the 'Wei/Wey' river, though. It's only ever the Grand Canal or the Southern Canal. Per Google Maps, even if we were counting anything below the junction with the Grand Canal as the Wei/Wey (which we very much shouldn't) the major artery downstream from the junction with the canal along the Wei/Wey's former course has the separate name of the Zhangwei Xinhe River/Chahe River, flows directly into Bohai Bay, and again has nothing to do with the Hai. — LlywelynII 02:01, 8 October 2023 (UTC)