Talk:Mount Hood

Elevation conversion issue
In the elevation section, it says the height is 11,240 ft which actually converts to 3426m, but the conversion is listed as 3430 m which is wrong. I tried editing but noticed that the conversion was done automatically by Wikipedia using its internal converter. Maybe there's some problem with the converter? Dcqec111 (talk) 12:48, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Please see Template:Convert to learn how to make adjustments to the precision of the conversion. --Walter Siegmund (talk) 15:42, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

I just stumbled over the same issue. Both 11239 and 11240ft should convert to 3426m. I added sigfig=4 where appropriate. That seems to fix the issue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:4A:CE11:9361:C66E:1FFF:FE10:D8CA (talk) 19:58, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Wy'east
There is no record of the Multnomah tribe having used the name Wy'east at all for anything. It is not even a word. Scholars and linguists have looked closely at the word for more than 100 years and found no record of the word. The word has been documented as being used first by Fredrick Balch in his admittedly "fictionalized" account of the supposed native story quoted in the entry "Bridge of the Gods". What this means is Balch likely created the word himself to enliven his "fictional" account. Again this is a "fictional" account which means many of the details are made up by the author. This is romanticist history at its finest. Now more than 120 years after the Balch text was first produced (1889?)people tend to believe in the word Wy'east even though it is not proven in any way to be a native word. There is a discussion by me in the article Four Deaths published in 2014 in the Oregon Historical Quarterly. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5403/oregonhistq.115.3.0414#metadata_info_tab_contents). So this word now has taken on other public dimensions as people have widely adopted it, and in many ways have been taught about it as if it is a native word, so it will be tough to change people's minds. but I challenge anyone to find a varified ethnographic or linguistic record with the word at all?!!! If this is found and proven to be legit, I will immediately change my position. There are other words for the mountain, the local tribes did call it Pahto, and the Molala have a word for it, I would have to dig that word from my notes, but no one to this point has found Wy'east in any record. I recommend changing the record to suggest that the Multnomah have no record of using it as a word, BTW we do not have many words at all from the Multnomah, their language would be lower Chinook. The record could suggest that there is an "assumed" native placename, with no record of tribes using it. I realize people who believe in the myth of Wy'east will be highly critical of these statements and will try to attack me personally, All I can say is prove it, find the record of this, or change the entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dglewis9000 (talk • contribs) 19:45, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

'enemy commander'
In the article it talks about US Navy ships named for Mt. Hood, it states this is 'despite being named after an enemy commander'. This doesn't seem to fit, both ships were commissioned long after the US and the UK had become rather staunch allies and in fact the earliest one was on the tail end of WWII when both countries had bled together on the same side of the largest conflict the world has seen. Would there be any opposition to me cutting that phrase? --WhoIs 127.0.0.1 ping/loopback 12:16, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Ehh, after seeing the lack oh historical activity on this talkpage I just went ahead an did it. If anyone thinks the phrase added something to the text feel free to tell me why I'm wrong :) --WhoIs 127.0.0.1 ping/loopback 12:20, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Seems like a clear case of opinion/POV. Thanks for removing. – Novem Linguae (talk) 12:40, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Arachnophobia, not Acrophobia
See the referenced article. 99.23.194.130 (talk) 14:27, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Lack of clarity.
The page name is Mt. Hood not Wy'east. Listing Multnomah as "Language of the name" is confusing. 97.120.92.0 (talk) 00:12, 6 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Good point. I've removed the item (maybe it should be replaced by "English") per this point. Pete Forsyth (talk) 16:48, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Photo of summit
I came across this photo, thought it might be worth including. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 16:42, 8 May 2024 (UTC)