Talk:Joshua Tree National Park

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[edit] Gallery

WP:NOT a gallery of images. All images other than the amount that are in this article need to go to commons and be uploaded there and tagged with the Joshua Tree national park category. A link is at the bottom of the page. I have also removed all images that do not have source information. Please do not recreate the gallery, commons is the correct repository for this kind of material. pschemp | talk 18:11, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

This is obviously a self-interested question, but what is the purpose of the gallery tag if galleries are not allowed on WP? I understand the point re: the commons, but I've seen hundreds of galleries on WP articles, and in fact a number of the US national park articles feature a small collection of images illustrating various features and highlights of the park. If you found the gallery to be self serving, fine, but to make a blanket statement that galleries aren't allowed on WP doesn't exactly gel with the common use of the gallery tag.Pixel23 20:53, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

you can't read the whole article the pictures are overlapping

• i tried to fix the layout, but it seems like there are too many photos for the amount of text. at least one should be removed, maybe two, to make the article's layout flow better. ikes (talk) 17:39, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

i went ahead and got rid of the photos except for the map, the pic of the joshua tree, and a nice photo of a sunset at four rocks. there is already a link on the page to more joshua tree photos in wikipedia commons. too many photos on this page just destroys the article layout. ikes (talk) 17:46, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Probably could have left another one or two. Random readers don't know about commons, not even to click on the link, and in any case the commons pictures are typically organized for the benefit of editors, not readers, so readers who end up at commons find a virtual shoebox of photos, not anything like an organized gallery (and many of the descriptions are not even in English!). Stan (talk) 18:19, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

That's fine, if they fit in with the text. I had trouble getting them to look ok, so i pared the number down to what i could fit in the layout. ikes (talk) 21:56, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gram Parsons

i removed the gram parsons reference for a couple reasons. he was not a rock climber as stated, although he was enamored with joshua tree. the trivia regarding his connection with joshua tree and the failed cremation of his body are interesting, but there currently is no section in the article where this would fit, and it certainly doesn't belong in the climbing section. ikes 18:56, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

It surely doesnt fit in the climbing section, but Gram Parsons fascination and partial cremation at Joshua Tree are very significant and very much deserve a spot in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.51.201 (talk) 23:17, 18 February 2008 (UTC)