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Correcting Hollister Peak Entry
I have attempted to change incorrect information for the entry Hollister Peak but people have reverted my changes twice in the last month. I don't want to get into warring edits here but the information currently in the Hollister Peak entry is wrong. The current enty is as follows: Hollister Peak is a 1404 ft volcanic plug located near Morro Bay, California. It is one of the Nine Sisters, and receives its name from the family that lived at its base in 1884. It was of religious importance to the Chumash. Hollister Peak is on private property but within certain days of the year the peak is open to the public to climb during holiday's and for Indian tribes for religious purposes. The peak has about 5 trails on the east side and several other trails also on the west side of the peak which faces the 7th sister on Morro Bay rock.

The entry states that the ppeak is open ion certain dates of the year and this is not true. My family and our neighbors own Hollister peak and we declared it as an ecological reserve in 1997. We do not climb the peak and it is neve4r open. We decline all requests for access and anyone who attempts to climb the peak is cited by the Sheriff. I am concerned that this incorrect information in Wikipedia is causing people to think there may be access when there is not. For example, 5 young men just got tickets last week and had to each pay a $75.00 fine. We have changed most web references to Hollister Peak to make sure people know there is no access but I am not sure why people have reverted my changes, which are factually correct, back to information that is not factually correct.

Fact: There are no trails on Hollister Peak

Fact: In 1997 the owners of Hollister Peak declared it an ecological reserve to protect sensitive wildlife such as nesting Peregrine Falcons

Fact: We - the owners of Hollister Peak do not ever climb the peak or enter the reserve.

Fact: Hollister Peak does not have any access available to anyone at any time for any reason and anyone who violates that is ticketed by the sheriff.

I would appreciate any assistance in correcting the information about Hollister Peak on Wikipedia. It is unfortunate to have people getting tickets after being misdirected by the current incorrect information. Jeff Buckingham (talk) 13:41, 23 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I can certainly understand your concerns but unfortunately your edits are likely to continue to get reverted by others until they are cited to a reliable reference (see WP:RS for clarification). Hopefully there is some local source such as a local newspaper story, a publication by the local DNR or tourism places, or perhaps even a link to correct info on regional hiking websites.  If you can provide such referencing, your edits are more likely to avoid being removed. I hope this helps. Autumnalmonk (talk) 15:09, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

I appreciate the input. In reading the current information on Hollister Peak there is a reference to the local Sierra Club web site that confirms that there is no access to Hollister peak and that the are is an ecological reserve. I think I will try re-writing my edit and refer to the Sierra Club site. Hopefully this will satisfy the people who keep reverting the back to factually incorrect information. (Jeff Buckingham (talk) 16:46, 26 May 2012 (UTC))