[Tagging] How to tag named group of named water areas?

[Yves]

Dave,
Not that what you say doesn't make sense, cause it does.
However I just think that the wiki is not the bible (it's a wiki), secondly OSM is not that square as it is made to be edited by hand. 
Keep it simple here just means that mapping a way is simpler than a relation for most.
Yves 
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