Talk:Cave of Swallows

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An entry from Cave of Swallows appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 13 April 2007.

I would add a photo, but I cant find find one not held by copyright... --- ÅñôñÿMôús ^{Dîššíd3nt} 06:06, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I've been attempting to upload a photo onto Wikimedia Commons for use in this article. My browser doesn't indicate progress, but tcpdump shows traffic to the server. We'll see if anything has happened by the morning.Stubb 02:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

The upload just took an awfully long time. I'll add another photo looking up from the bottom of the cave over the weekend. This was my first attempt at adding a photo; feedback would be appreciated.Stubb 10:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

How do you get back up after jumping in? 70.82.94.104 19:03, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

I'll add a photo from one of my trips to the cave. But first I need to figure out how to do so. I'm extremely new to editing Wikipedia articles. Stubb 02:28, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I've been unable to get the second author of the AMCS bulletin to appear in the footnotes. Any help in determining what I missed would be very much appreciated.Stubb 02:30, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Fantastic! You have an image? Great. Ok. Please see Wikipedia:Images and Help:Images and other uploaded files for help on inserting an image. I'll fix the ref problems. Yours, —ÅñôñÿMôús _{Dîššíd3nt} 11:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I dont see what is wrong with your notes. Please explain where you were refering to. Thanks, —ÅñôñÿMôús _{Dîššíd3nt} 11:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the links on uploading photos. I have several photos of Golondrinas from caving trips to the area and will try uploading one this evening. As for the citation problem, Caves of the Inter-American Highway should list two authors: William H. Russell and Terry W. Raines. Due to some unknown mistake on my part, Terry W. Raines doesn't appear in the result. Does anything look obviously incorrect to you? Thanks in advance for your help. Stubb 14:37, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Thats great. I hope that you wont have too much trouble implanting those, but, if you do, please dont hesistate to ask for help =]. Thanks, —ÅñôñÿMôús _{Dîššíd3nt} 07:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Turns out that there's an orphaned page on this cave: Golondrinas. What's the typical policy if two pages have different names but describe the same thing? Should the other page simply redirect to this one?Stubb 15:07, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, and it now does. The policy is to judge each on its merits and then merge, redirect or delete as appropriate. (I fixed your ref problem too) Yomangani^talk 16:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] errors

The pit was not discovered in 1966. Evans and crew deserve credit for being the first crew to descend (in '67, IIRC), but the thing was known by the locals for hundreds for thousands of years. There's even a story that some French crew may have been the first white guys (FWIW) to see it.

Also, it's not anywhere near the deepest 'cave' in NA or the world. It's nearly the deepest PIT on the planet. Many caves are several times deeper.

4.230.153.89 08:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually it's number 17 on Caver Bob's list of deep pits.Senor Cuete (talk) 04:50, 12 March 2008 (UTC)Senor Cuete