User talk:SLCLibrarian

User talk:SLCLibrarian
I changed the wording in the front section of the Crater Lake National Park article. The source cited calls the park the "sixth oldest", whereas this article said the park was "the sixth to be designated". These two terms are clearly different. See this NPS timeline, which shows that Mackinac NP and General Grant NP were established as national parks before Crater Lake. These two parks no longer exist (General Grant was absorbed into Sequoia NP, while Mackinac was simply abolished). It therefore seemed safer to talk about Crater Lake NP's rank in age, rather than try to sort out order of establishment. SLCLibrarian (talk) 23:46, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi there
Welcome to Wikipedia. We value your expertise. One small suggestion: I'd move the explanation above to the talk page of Crater Lake National Park. That's where other editors with an interest in the article will look for it, and they probably won't see it here. Finetooth (talk) 02:40, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm envious. You already know how to create a note using, something I've seen but never done. I learn mainly by imitation, so I will just clone your method when the opportunity arises. One more small suggestion: If you have a reliable outside source for the "ninth deepest anywhere in the world claim", it would be good to use it rather than referring to the Wikipedia list. Wikipedia is not a reliable source as defined by WP:RS. Finetooth (talk) 03:11, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Talk vs. Discussion?
hello Finetooth, thanks from the newbie for the advice. Since the Crater Lake NP Discussion page only contained discussions about possible links to add, I didn't think it was the right place to justify my changes. Is there a different page for talk:Crater Lake National Park? Also, I haven't started to look at the 9th-deepest-in-the-world claim yet. I know that some new evidence about the depths of other lakes did come out in the past year, but I'd need to track down some sources. SLCLibrarian (talk) 22:25, 13 November 2009 (UTC)


 * You are most welcome. Even after 2.5 years on Wikipedia I often feel like a newbie; the inner workings of this vast network can be very complex and not always straightforward or perfectly organized. Each article has a corresponding talk page, and that's where most discussions about an article take place. (You are free to discuss articles elsewhere too if it serves your purpose). In fact, in the edit summary after any edit that might cause a kerfuffle, you can always say "Please see talk page". You can then add a note with its own topic head to the talk page and elaborate on your edit summary. New subject heads get added to the bottoms of talk pages so that the talking chronology generally progresses from top to bottom. If another editor wants to reply to your initial comment, he or she will usually indent a bit for visual clarity and add a note below your initial comment (but still under your subject head). It was just an accident that the existing discussions on the Crater Lake NP talk page happened to deal with "External links". It's common for a myriad of unrelated topic heads to appear over time on any given talk page and to contain mini-discussions that develop independently of one another. Where things get added is more a matter of convention or practical necessity than any fixed set of rules. Finetooth (talk) 00:02, 14 November 2009 (UTC)