Talk:Carlsbad Caverns National Park

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Contents 1 Information or advertisement? 2 Featured article discussion 3 Guadalupe Mountains National Park link 4 Request for references 5 Remove Commercial Link? 6 Copy/paste job

[edit] Information or advertisement?

This article still reads like the promotional brochure from which it was apparently derived. Wouldn't a little less poetic license and a little more hard fact be better for an online encyclopedia? Agateller 01:32, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured article discussion

Discussion from Wikipedia:Featured article candidates:

Nominated by Bevo 03:08, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Object. After reading the article I still have no idea where it is located. -- Kaihsu 18:17, 2004 Feb 26 (UTC)
  • Several days ago I added a small state map of NM that highlights the approximate location. Bevo 02:35, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • I have to say that when I read it there was no location information. (See history of that page) -- Kaihsu 08:30, 2004 Feb 27 (UTC)
  • Objection withdrawn, but not a vote in support. -- Kaihsu 11:39, 2004 Feb 27 (UTC)
  • standard Natl Park LocMap now in place - Bevo 22:26, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
• I really think a map with a dot (ideally on a topographical map, since this is about a geographical feature) showing the exact location is called for, not just highlighting the county. Other questions remain unanswered: What are the altitudes of the highest/lowest points? If it's "one of the largest" cave complexes, what are its competitors? What fraction of it is publicly accessible? (Aren't there any bats living in the public areas? There usually are in the caves I've visited before...but the article says that their "darkened homes are only visible to scientific researchers".) Steven G. Johnson 07:27, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • "map with a dot" now instantiated - Bevo 22:26, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • bat material rewritten by Kingturtle. (see below)
• Approve. "Southeastern New Mexico" is a very good description of its location (there are hardly any people in this region, so you can't miss it if you simply drive! Just follow the other cars and you will get there. It's not like California, where there are millions of competing stories). Ancheta Wis 02:23, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
• Approve. I just gave it a nice edit. I did, however, remove much of the Mexican Freetail Bat details. That should be its own article....maybe someday a FEATURE article? :) Kingturtle 19:43, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
• Not an objection, but I would like to see a national park table (see Yellowstone National Park). Come to think of it, complying to relevant WikiProjects may be a good criteria for being a featured article. --mav 11:30, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Yes, a table like the one in Yellowstone National Park would make a great addition to the article. In fact, I'm not ready to withdraw this one from nomination, but that Yellowstone article is a much better article overall than this one, at this time. I suppose one side-effect of this nomination process is to get ideas on how an article can be approved, even if it never makes it to the FA list. - Bevo 19:02, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Please make one - I see from the rules above that a basic criteria for being featured is conformance to relevant WikiProjects. --mav
  • I added a LocMap that I created from the template image at Image:Map of USA.png. It would be nice now to get it and the stats into a table format like Yellowstone National Park. - Bevo 20:27, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Added stats to LocMap table Plus some touch up to section headings and links. - Bevo 16:29, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
• Support as it is, a very enjoyable article. I would however love to see some more photographs, especially of the bats at dusk, and the cave paintings (if these are still distinct). fabiform | talk 01:43, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Guadalupe Mountains National Park link

I returned the link to Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Although not nearly as well known as Carlsbad Caverns, the two parks are closely tied. They are in the same mountain range and have similar geology, flora and fauna. The local park support association is called the Carlsbad Caverns / Guadalupe Mountains Association and is focused on both parks. ([1]) Guadalupe Mountains NP does have a few small caves, although nothing to compare with Carlsbad Caverns. H2O 03:19, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Request for references

Hi, I am working to encourage implementation of the goals of the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy. Part of that is to make sure articles cite their sources. This is particularly important for featured articles, since they are a prominent part of Wikipedia. Further reading is not the same thing as proper references. Further reading could list works about the topic that were not ever consulted by the page authors. If some of the works listed in the further reading section were used to add or check material in the article, please list them in a references section instead. The Fact and Reference Check Project has more information. Thank you, and please leave me a message when you have added a few references to the article. - Taxman 19:50, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Remove Commercial Link?

Wikipedia has rules against commercial links, Gadfium? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Npgallery (talk • contribs) .

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[edit] Copy/paste job

For those wondering about the {{copypaste}} templates, please see the FAR page for the relevant discussion. This article seems to have been a direct copy/paste job from http://www.carlsbad.caverns.national-park.com/info.htm. The initial version of this article is here. We are trying to track down whether or not the text was originally in the public domain. Any help would be appreciated. Gzkn 03:18, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.carlsbad.caverns.national-park.com/info.htm has the archives for the original webpage from which the copy might have been taken. That might help establish some chronologies. - Bevo 22:05, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

For whatever it's worth the earliest archive of the allegedly copied page has this appended to it: "Information was provided by the National Park Service." That's probably too vauge to be definitive, but it does indicate a potential PD source. - Bevo 22:08, 13 December 2006 (UTC)