Talk:Chimborazo (volcano)

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[edit] Where?

Where in earth shall Everest be (latitude, longitude or both) to tie with Chimborazo in distance from peak to the centre of the Earth? Is this an answerable question? Even with estimates?Undead Herle King (talk) 17:12, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of irrelevant external links

detailed reasons i deleted the links:

in my opinion a very cheap and inaccurate website which does not provide any additional value to the article (go to their homepage, select southamerica, select the andes, then you get a list of hundreds of summits, most of them not in the andes to my knowledge)

this too links are personal logs about climbing chimbo, the second one is not even chimbo specific but a log about a whole 2weeks mountaineering tour. to justify linking to such pages from wikipedia they would need to provide some really special information or be of much better quality than these are. i don't think that it would be a god idea if everybody who visited some spot on this earth would add links to his personal photopages to the respective wp articles

ecuaworld.com is a commercial travel agency site which is spamming each and every ecuador related article, i don't thin it would be a good idea if every travel agency would post their links on wikipedia articles. in this case the page is really providing additional information regarding the etymology of chimborazo, allthough in my opinion and to my knowledge this information is partly wrong. i will do research on the chimbo etymology and include this information into the article with the respective sources. afterwards i will delete this link

--Ma xyz 17:11, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Again, deletion of irrelevant links (aka linkspam)

Details about why i deleted each link:

more extensive etymology information than provided by this webpage is allready included in the main article (under history)

what has the information on this website to do with chimborazo? there are not even any pictures of chimborazo on this page. (as of today at least, and even when...read below)

to ecuaworld.com/maquinet.info who continues spamming ecuador related articles with their links:

  • if you want to contribute etymological information why don't you include the information in the main article, would be easy for you to c opy paste this 2 lines from your pages?
  • if you want to contribute pictures of ecuador, why don't you release them with a gnu license and post them directly to the wikimedia commons project?

i tell you why, because you do not want to contribute information, your only goal is to promote your business and drive traffic to your webpage, thats not what wikipedia is intended for, there are lots of other posibilities on the internet to promote your pages, please stop spamming on wikipedia. --Ma xyz 00:57, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Glacier melting removed, lack of sources and relevance

I removed the following part:

"The capital of Bolivar, Guaranda (25,000 inhabitants) is supplied by "vertientes" in the high "páramo" (arid Andean plateaus over 4,000 m) situated 25 km from the city. In the summer of 2005 the water supply of the city suffered severe crisis, probably due to the fast disappearance of the ice cover of the Chimborazo. According to French researchers, Andean high glaciers are melting at an accelerated rate and most are feared will disappear within the coming decades. Therefore, Quito, Lima, La Paz and other cities founded on glacial flows are bound to find themselves fighting severe water supply problems in the near future."

due the lack of sources and also relevance to the chimborazo article. i'd rather want to add some chimborazo specific information regarding the accelerated melting of its glacier due to climate changes and eventually due to tungurahua activity. i am looking for sources and will add something as soon as i can. any help is appreciated. --Ma xyz 22:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Farthest from center of the Earth??

When you make such statement, it requires explanation and proof why it would be farther from the centre than Mt.Everest. Dunnhaupt 17:03, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

This is more a tongue-in-cheek/trivia kind of fact, but it is also mentioned on articles like Extreme points of the world and even Mount Everest, so i guess it makes sense to have it here as well. Anyway, your comment inspired me to look for sources to cite, i found one and added it. On the other hand i do not understand what you mean by explanation, there is a short explanation in the article and even a link to equatorial bulge for a more detailed explanation, what else do you need? And proof? It's just a fact, the world is full of facts you just have to believe sometimes ;-). Saludos Ma xyz 04:10, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chimborazo - mentioned in a poem by Emily Dickinson

Hello friends,

I'm not sure if this is relevant to the article according to your criteria, but the Chimborazo is mentioned in a well-known love poem by Emily Dickinson.

Here goes the poem and if you think it deserves to be added, ok, otherwise forgive me for taking your time.

The layout of the poem and the dashes have not come out correctly on my posting.


BlueSkies999 (talk) 01:06, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


Love  thou art high  I cannot climb thee  But, were it Two  Who knows but we  Taking turns  at the Chimborazo  Ducal  at last  stand up by thee 

Love  thou art deep  I cannot cross thee  But, were there Two Instead of One  Rower, and Yacht  some sovereign Summer  Who knows  but we’d reach the Sun?

Love  thou art Veiled  A few  behold thee  Smile  and alter  and prattle  and die  Bliss  were an Oddity  without thee  Nicknamed by God  Eternity 


Emily Dickinson

BlueSkies999 (talk)

Thanks for the poem, it's interesting to me that she mentions the peak. But I think it's not quite pertinent enough to the article to include it. Others may disagree. -- Spireguy (talk) 14:29, 30 April 2008 (UTC)