Talk:Mount Vesuvius

Image of crater
Does anyone have a problem with the removal of the recently added image of the crater? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Vesuvius_crater.jpg

1. It does not really illustrate either the general structure of the caldera, nor does it show anything specific that would be of interest. 2. I’m not sure if it’s a faithful reproduction of the original photo or if the original has aged poorly (the date stamp shows that the photo was taken in 1994), but the image has a strong magenta bias. This makes it, for lack of a better term, aesthetically displeasing. No offence meant, I just found it particularly visually jarring to scroll down and see two nearby images with such radically different colour balances. SmallMossie (talk) 23:55, 9 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks for reporting this. I have removed the image because the colour is misleading. The image colour seems faulty or added by image processing. The crater almost certainly does not have this purplish colour in natural light. Other, more reliable, images are available on Wikimedia Commons. GeoWriter (talk) 13:16, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Edit Request
Need to modify the listing of 20th century Vesuvius eruptions. The March-June 1933 eruption is not given. See Zies (1934) - Volcanic activity in 1933. Transactions, American Geophysical Union, p. 246. (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/TR015i001p00246) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:0:1A10:7724:949B:E608:8BFD:5CB3 (talk) 01:19, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reporting this. A characteristic of the eruptive history of Vesuvius is the long duration of many of its eruptions. The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program database lists Vesuvius' most recent eruption as 1913 to 1944 - see https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=211020 . This seems to imply that a 1933 eruption would actually have been an eruptive episode during the 31-year-long eruption. GeoWriter (talk) 13:24, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, that's a bit of a mischaracterization. It wasn't erupting for 3 decades.  Regardless of preference, the article text should be modified/rephrased to reflect actual early 20th century activity.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FCC8:E846:FD00:5084:1093:E383:25D5 (talk) 14:44, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Check out the Appendix of this paper, starting on page 22. Indeed, Vesuvius was continuously active between 1913 and 1944, with a lava lake in the crater and periodic outflows from the crater. There was a final large eruption in 1944 that seems to have caused Vesuvius to lapse into repose. —hike395 (talk) 17:14, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Edit request for Mount Vesuvius - fact check
"Vesuvius has erupted many times since, and is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years."

Hello! I could be wrong, but I believe this sentence contradicts the wiki article for Mount Etna, which is also on the European mainland and has erupted multiple times in the past century and quite recently.

Thank you for contributing.

--Izzy Coffeenebulawastaken (talk) 18:34, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Mount Etna is on Sicily, which is not on the European mainland. The prose stipulates mainland. Hope that clears it up. Thanks. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:50, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Edit request for Mythology section
Can someone add a sentence or two about Parthenope (Siren) to the Mythology section please? 2601:647:CD00:DF0:D14E:6DDB:3FA7:8EEE (talk) 02:04, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Inscription citation
In References "[full citation needed]" follows "CIL x.1, 3806" the citation for "An inscription from Capua" in Section #1 Mythology. That appears to be the accepted citation form. See https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/51630/vanRoggen_cornell_0058O_10112.pdf?sequence=1 page 18, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110674736-004/pdf page 53 note 18 also at https://ebin.pub/urban-disasters-and-the-roman-imagination-9783110674767-3110674769.html (search An inscription from Capua), https://archive.org/details/herculaneumpastp00wald/page/n183/mode/2up?q=3806.

See also https://www.orientalistica.su/jour/article/view/513?locale=en_US, https://pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R7/7%2004%2061.htm, https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3013, https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Kasserine-Mausoleum-of-the-Flavii-inscription-CIL-8212-lines-13-42-photo-A_fig2_236157705, https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Varia/Marcia_CIL.htm, https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/307928, https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/concordances/concordance-CIL, etc. Mcljlm (talk) 12:39, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Cable cars picture
The original source may list the picture as a cart on the Mt.Vesuvius, but the cart literally has ETNA written over it. Most likely is a picture of something similar on Mt.Etna. 82.84.58.225 (talk) 13:26, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reporting this but I think you are probably mistaken about the photo being from Mount Etna. The two-track Vesuvius funicular railway had two cars, one on each track. It seems that the original pair of cable cars at Vesuvius were called "Vesuvio" and "Etna". See. e.g. https://www.tramwayinfo.com/Tramframe.htm?https://www.tramwayinfo.com/trampostcards/Postc136.htm and https://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/Vesuvius/Vesuvius%20p2.htm for the Vesuvius funicular railway's history. I have changed the photo in the article and its caption text to clarify this. GeoWriter (talk) 17:30, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Date of painting
The image captioned "Procession of Saint Januarius during an eruption of Vesuvius in 1822" seems to contain an error. Looks like it was painted in 1822, but the caption makes it sound like the event depicted occurred in 1822. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gofoyo (talk • contribs) 00:13, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reporting this. I have changed the caption text of the painting image in the article. GeoWriter (talk) 12:23, 11 July 2024 (UTC)