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Bryce Canyon and Bryce Canyon National Park distinction
Do we need seperate virtually duplicate articles for
Bryce Canyon and
Bryce Canyon National Park? It seems like unnecessary duplication of effort (and photos) to me... I'd think that the Canyon article could simply be a redirect to the NP one because they contain virtually the same information.
KJ 23:16 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Writing this article in a comparison to Zion is an insult to it. No article should be written as a comparison - the subject should be just that. Also, giving the location relative to Zion is ridiculous as it rovides no relevant reference point.
It was co-administered with Zion for much of its history and is still a secondary close-by destination that people who go to Zion go to. Its proximity and long history of being linked makes such comparisons apt (not to mention the fact that the geology is related in that each part exposes overlapping parts of the
Grand Staircase). --
mav 04:11, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Image descriptor
The footnote for the image Bryce_Cabin_circa_1881.jpg "Ebenezer Bryce and his family lived in Bryce Canyon, in this cabin, here photographed circa 1881." is ambigous. It is not clear if the year 1881 is the year when the cabin was photographed or the family lived.
I'd like to replace the second panoramic image in the article with this one, unless someone thinks this would not be a significant improvement.
Bryce Canyon
I couldn't notice any major change. Please enlighten me. -
Mahadevan Subramanian 07:39, 12 January 2006 (UTC)reply
It is done now, thats why both pictures look the same now :-). This was the old one: --
Dschwen 07:44, 12 January 2006 (UTC)reply
Oh, great! The new one is definitely, a significant improvement. The old one looks a bit unprofessional. --
Mahadevan Subramanian 06:26, 13 January 2006 (UTC)reply
Nationalparksgallery.com
User:Npgallery seems to want the link to his/her website (based on his/her username, I assume it's the website) on the page. I removed it stating spamish - low quality pictures, commercial website with lots of ads, many better pics out there, but then Npgallery put it right back saying rv vandal.
Nationalparks 05:17, 6 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Those are extremely subjective assertions. That site is hardly 'spammish', nor does it have 'low quality' pictures, nor does it have lots of ads. And there are no rules against 'commercial' sites. I suspect user national parks is IP 67.182.22.71 who has been deleting/altering lots of links lately and adding links to what appears to be his/her site. —The preceding
unsigned comment was added byNpgallery (
talk •
contribs) .
1. Take a look at
http://www.nationalparksgallery (dot) com/items/3288.JPG this pic from the site, as an example. It is very pixelated, as are the rest of the pictures from the site. Honestly, I don't think these pictures add value to the page... If they did, you could just upload them directly to the page itself.
2. My IP is 18.95.6.172, as any admin could tell you. I hadn't changed the links on this page.
3. You didn't sign your post here using 4 tildes, as you are supposed to.
Very pixelated? You need to see an eye doctor. And your claim the 'rest' of the pictures on the site are 'very pixelated' too is flat out untrue. This user nationalparks simply appears to have nothing better to do with his time than attack people/sites based on specious criteria he makes up. —The preceding
unsigned comment was added byNpgallery (
talk •
contribs) .
The jpgs are low resolution and have been highly compressed. The edges of the features are not distinct. Also see
Wikipedia:No personal attacks.
Nationalparks 07:38, 6 February 2006 (UTC)reply
And it's not only here, but most of the NPS sites have a link to Npgallery's site.
Nationalparks 07:42, 6 February 2006 (UTC)reply
I've renamed the title here, as it triggers the Talk page spam filter.
Tijuana Brass (
talk) 22:53, 7 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Ununique unique structures
This article states in the opening section that it has unique geological structures called hoodoos. Hoodoos exist elsewhere all over the world and are by no means unique to Bryce Canyon. This should be removed or rephrased both here and on the Wikipedia main page where an image of the canyon is the featured image.
Ben W Belltalk 01:17, 29 August 2007 (UTC)reply
I don't see a single instance of the word "unique" anywhere in the article
This article is a good example of what happens when there's so many good images available that they're allowed to overwhelm the text. I've placed some into a gallery at the end of the article while leaving others in places where they seemed especially relevant and representative of the corresponding text. Changes are welcome, but consider aesthetics and relevance before adding new ones in -
Wikipedia is not a photo archive, and there are far more images of Bryce Canyon out there than this article could possibly need.
Tijuana Brass (
talk) 22:53, 7 December 2007 (UTC)reply
I'm thinking of transwiki-ing the 4 photos in the gallery over to Commons (and eliminating the gallery entirely). Given that this is an FA, I wanted to get a sense of what the other editors thought before doing this.
hike395 (
talk) 04:29, 22 December 2008 (UTC)reply
In general we don't use galleries, so I would be in favour of moving it to commons (I suspect those pix are already there). Cheers,
Casliber (
talk·contribs) 04:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Cleaned-up. Will need to do that once in a while. Images need to stay highly relevant. --
mav (
talk)
Uncited para on climate
This needs to be cited to a
WP:RS before going back in article. --
mav (please help review
urgent FAC and FARs) 19:17, 20 December 2009 (UTC)reply
The record high temperature at the park headquarters was 98°F on July 14, 2002. The record low temperature was -28°F on December 10, 1972. Average annual precipitation is 15.53 inches. The wettest year was 1993 with 25.06 inches and the dryest year was 1950 with 7.25 inches. The most precipitation in one month was 8.83 inches in September 1939. The most precipitation in 24 hours was 3.81 inches on August 21, 1947. The snowiest year was 1952 with 206.0 inches. The most snowfall in one month was 82.0 inches in January 1993.[climate 1]
I've removed the WP Earthquakes banner as the article doesn't mention earthquakes or seismicity, but I've also added a WP geology banner, which does seem appropriate - if anyone has a good reason why this page should be in the Earthquakes Project, please just add it back.
Mikenorton (
talk) 17:15, 29 December 2010 (UTC)reply
A panoramic view of the Bryce Amphitheater in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, as seen from Sunrise Point. It is the largest amphitheater in the park, measuring 12 miles (19 km) long, 3 miles (4.8 km) wide and 800 feet (240 m) deep. Bryce Canyon National Park, which was designated a National Park in 1928, consists of numerous natural
amphitheaters and is distinguished by its
hoodoos.Photograph:
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An iconic hoodoo called the Sentinel fell last month due to frost wedging
[1][2]. Pretty fascinating to see geology in action. I'm not sure how frequently this happens at Bryce, but it seems pretty noteworthy. Maybe this belongs in the Geology section. Do any editors who know more about geology than I do have an opinion?
Pistongrinder (
talk) 18:09, 13 December 2016 (UTC)reply
Elevation vs Zion
The statement that Bryce is 1000 feet higher than Zion is rather conservative. For example, Bryce's visitor center is almost 4000 feet higher than Zion's (7900 vs 3934).
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Bryce Canyon National Park is an
American national park located in southwestern
Utah. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural
amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. This panoramic view, as seen from Inspiration Point, shows the colorful
Claron Formation, from which the park's delicate
hoodoos are carved; the sediments were laid down in a system of streams and lakes that existed from 63 to about 40 million years ago (from the
Paleocene to the
Eocene epochs). The brown, pink and red colors are from
hematite, the yellows from
limonite, and the purples from
pyrolusite.
1. If the park is not a canyon then why is it improperly called "Bryce Canyon National Park" and why the NPS does not properly rename it simply to "Bryce National Park"?
2. I think the history section should be placed before anything else, including the geography and climate sections.
3. The section called "Creation of the park" does not tell the story in a linear and chronological fashion. It should be reorganized and rewritten so that the sequence is from the past to the present. I see several instances of jumping back and forth in time.
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