Talk:Olympus (Lycia)

Coordinates
Could someone check the coordinates again. It seems to me on google maps, that they are about half a mile too far to the north.

Praise
Congratulations, JustSomeKid, on the tidying, and yes some of the previous text did seem to come from a tourist leaflet,and yes about the prosaicness of methane too. However the final part describing Olympos mitos otel as it is today, as a hippy resort etc., is just factual observation and quite encyclopaedic. I don't think our descriptions should stop at some arbitrary time in history before modern times, so I think it or most of it should go back. TobyJ 20:02, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

This sounds pretty dubious and unsubstantiated:

"Scientists are as mystified as the people of ancient times as to how fire spontaneously erupts from holes in the mountain. The fuel source for the flames is natural gas seeping through cracks in the earth. Scientists are still unable to discover the compounds of the gases."

In the 21st century, it's not hard to determine the nature of some gas seeping out of the ground if you have the right equipment.

wow
" It really did need cleaning up. It had bad grammar, a huge-ass image, unclear and fragmented writing, etc. I did what I could, but considering the way it was written I may have unintentionally distorted the meaning of the article. -JustSomeKid

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Hello, my name is Heiko. I am from Olympos. Dear JustSomeKid: Thank you very much for spending so much work on the Olympos page. If you dont mind, i will do some work on the page too. Some things really need to be changed.

regards Heiko Heiko's Homepage from Olympos Heiko's 2nd Homepage

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22 September 2005

Yesterday i added 60 new pictures to my website from the Olympos ruins and beach, i'll add a link to the article. Heiko

me again
The appeals to mystery makes it sound like a tourism pamphlet, and the final paragraph definitely sounds like one. So I omitted some of it. I paraphrased the stuff about the mythical chimera (it has its own article), and reluctantly omitted that during the Lycian federation, it had suffrage (it was poorly worded and nondescriptive).

All I could find supporting the historical bits were vacation and tourism sites. In Turkey or Greece the historical bits might be common knowledge but I tend to be skeptical of things which have to romanticize their subject matter. Anyone have a book source, or a non-tourism URL? -JustSomeKid

Strange quote
I just noticed that the article seems to be attributing the quote "The summit however, the beautiful pyramid of Solyma 7,800 feet high, where in the snow, the legends say, the roses blossom, and groans are heard to summon the Muslims to Paradise, is not visible from the Chelidonian cape" to Homer which couldn't possibly be true because of the lack of Muslims during Homer's time. Also, it seems to creative writing more than encyclopedic writing and it doesn't really provide any relevant information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shibbyman (talk • contribs) 08:01, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The juxtaposition of "Muslims" with "Homer" is unfortunate, but could be put right. However, with User:Shibbyman in suggesting complete deletion as unencyclopedic.--Old Moonraker (talk) 08:10, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Deleted. --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:03, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Needs to be separated to articles for city and national park
Right now this article claims to be partially about the national park, but in practice focuses on the ancient city. We need to create a new article for the national park in my opinion. AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 13:28, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Which is exactly what I've done this afternoon, followed by some other significant changes. --AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 19:55, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Added section about modern Olympos
This needs to be here. But, we need to be careful that this is not use for advertisement, as it may have been in the past. If anyone can name the other mountain range that holds the valley, please add it. For now we only know the name of Omurga / Çamoda. Cayyolu76 (talk) 09:13, 16 June 2015 (UTC)