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The map on this page shows a Great Basin Smaller than it actually is. Someone should show replace the map.
Richard knrstauch@msn.com
I agree. This is a very poor map and a confused article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.60.58.71 ( talk) 00:18, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
There seems to be a rather noticeable Utah bias to this article. Both the Great Basin Desert and Region occupy much, much more of Nevada than Utah, but ALL of the photos were taken in Utah. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Austinfidel ( talk • contribs) 00:00, 26 April 2008
I believe the area of 184,427 sq mi (477,664 km2) in the infobox is incorrect. Going through the USGS site I come up with the following:
From the GIS area calculation, I get 541,728.54 square kilometres (209,162.56 sq mi). I believe the discrepancy comes from the USGS number not including the small area in Mexico. I propose using the GIS calculation.
Lynn (SLW) ( talk) 13:39, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
I also have a little heartburn with the sentence "The Great Basin can be defined hydrographically, geologically, and biologically. Each of these definitions yields a different geographical boundary of the Great Basin. The hydrographic definition is the most commonly used." In my mind, there is only one boundary of the Great Basin, and that is the hydrographic one, the area named by Fremont because it has no outlet to the sea. The other boundaries are for areas named for the Great Basin. I know that most of the sources use the term defined. So, how about we do something like this:
The term "Great Basin" is applied to hydrographic, [1] biological or floristic [2] geologic or physiographic, [3] and ethnographic regions. [4] The term was originally coined by John C. Frémont who, with knowledge gleaned from Joseph R. Walker as well as his own travels, recognized the hydrographic nature of the area as "having no connection to the ocean". [5] The hydrographic definition is the most commonly used, [6] and is the only with a definite border. The other definitions not only yield different geographical boundaries of "Great Basin" regions, but regional borders that vary from source to source. [3]
Lynn (SLW) ( talk) 23:41, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Yes, that's it. It is on page 14 of the heavy, bulky, 1993 hardcover edition that I have. So, I'll go ahead and make the changes. Lynn (SLW) ( talk) 11:26, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Great Basin's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "whatis":
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 13:56, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
Okay, now that we've figured out what the Great Basin is, I think the article is too focused on the northern part. There should be more information on the southern, Mohave region. Also, those climate tables seem really overwhelming. Any objection to taking those out, or putting them in the Great Basin Desert article, since they are all for areas within it? We could then link to that section in that article and the corresponding one in the Great Basin Mojave Desert one.
Lynn (SLW) (
talk) 00:44, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Request received to merge articles: Great Basin Desert into Great Basin#Merger Discussion; dated December 2015; discussion here. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 15:01, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
I propose that Intermountain West be merged into Great Basin. They seem synonymous to me. Keith (Hypergeek14) Talk 18:48, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
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