Proposal talk:Former riverbed

River Gauja has one case of old riverbed which is more like wetland. Then I would call it wetland = former_riverbed or old_riverbed

There are no "former riverbeds" in the world.

Riverbeds are always the lowest cuts in an area, and they stay lowest even if it dried out.

The correct word for a currently dry river is "wadi".

The danger that it fills rapidly with water if it rains, stays.

--Lulu-Ann 14:57, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

• This proposal not for dry river. See article Oxbow_lake in Wikipedia. Lzhl 17:51, 16 November 2009 (UTC).

Better use natural=riverbed instead

• I propose to use natural=riverbed instead of the key waterway. I also agree with the former comments: a riverbed is a riverbed not a "former" riverbed, even if there is no more water at the moment. --Dieterdreist 10:30, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Should be renamed

This proposal is useful, however it should be rephrased as old_riverbed. Also, related tag is proposed as waterway=riverbed - both are stuck in proposal hell for years, yet both could be very useful where old river courses still exist as backwater waterways though active in terms of usage/utilisation, but where the rivers' "main streams" are naturally relocated into a newly formed (not necessarily recently) riverbed leaving behind these old_riverbed features as backwaters while others are cut off completely and now form an oxbow ponds.--Santasa (talk) 17:11, 10 June 2024 (UTC)