Talk:Deep Eddy Pool

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[edit] Questions

I don't know much about assessment either (though I helped get New Carissa to FA status), but I have some general editing questions/comments about the article:

• Doesn't "swimming pool" imply "man-made"? (or, as I prefer to say, "artificial")
• What is this "diving baby" of which you speak?
• Some more wikification might be in order, but other than that, like BigrTex said, this looks really good. It's at least a B-class, I think. If I have time later I can give it a more thorough going-over if you want to try to get it to GA-status or beyond.

Yours in NRHP-itude, Katr67 22:43, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

• In Texas, swimming pools are not necessarily man-made -- the other major swimming pool in Austin is Barton Springs Pool. While the pool was enlarged by the addition of a dam, the basic pool is natural, not man-made.
• The diving baby certainly isn't central to the article, but is mentioned to give some flavor to the circus side-show like qualities that the pool had at one point in its history. Apparently, the baby was a good swimmer at an early age.

Thanks for your efforts, SteveHopson 22:55, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I tweaked it a bit (formatted the pictures to hopefully make the text flow better, and added a link to the National Register entry). I wish the marker pic was smaller, but that's more an infobox problem with tall pictures, really. As far as rating, hard for me to say. I have trouble rating anything above a Stub-class. It's obviously at least a Start (which is what I'd enter, but then I think under-rating an article is better than over-rating), but differentiating between that and a B... Tell you what, I'm going to rate it a Start. It can always be bumped up. Anyone who's better at the rating thing, do feel free.  :) --Ebyabe 00:28, 24 October 2006 (UTC)