Talk:Quinzhee

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[edit] Content

While the subject of this article is worthy of an encyclopedia, the content is nothing more than a how-to. I have created an module for Quinzhee in Wikibooks using this content. The article should now be amended to describe the nature, history, cultural significance, and modern examples of quinzhees. --Tysto 00:11, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rename and merge?

I think this article should be renamed to snow house since that is the more common name for it in English. Then we could also add content to it about things like the snow hotel in Sweden and the snow churches in Romania and so on.

I also think it might be nice to merge this article with "snow cave" since the two subjects are more or less the same. (Note, to me a "snow house" is built or dug out of a man made pile of snow, while a "snow cave" is dug into existing deep snow or into a snow covered slope.)

--David Göthberg 11:28, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I have read descriptions of this structure in several U.S. books and it has always been referred to as a "quinzhee", except perhaps in some old "Fun for Boys"-type books. However the broader point is that a quinzhee is just one form of snow house, and that it may be worthwhile to make this current material a section of a larger topic. -Will Beback · † · 07:40, 13 March 2007 (UTC)