Talk:Crater Lake
Latest comment: 10 years ago by Macdonald-ross in topic First person from Europe?
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changeWhy do we think the collapse happened 6,850 years ago when the ref suggests 7,500 years ago? Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:16, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
- I'd say because I messed something up and then looked at the wrong number on the source page. Thanks for finding this! -Barras talk 17:20, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
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change«The lake partly fills a nearly 4,000-foot (1,200-meter) deep caldera.». However, the (normal) English wikipedia says « The lake partly fills a nearly 2,148-foot (655 m) deep caldera».
RainCT (talk) 19:17, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
- Fixed, thanks. -Orashmatash (talk) 19:22, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
- You did check to make sure the en figure was correct and that ours was wrong I assume right? -DJSasso (talk) 19:23, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
First person from Europe?
change"John Wesley Hillman was the first person from Europe to discover Crater Lake." Hillman was from New York. Aside from not being true, the sentence sounds really strange. Kauffner (talk) 00:54, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, it's dotty. I think someone got tied up in PC language, and thought "well, it must have been seen by some native people". No doubt that's true, but Hillman knew what he saw was an important geographical feature, and reported it formally, so he wins the chips. There's a big difference between seeing something and realising its significance. The editor might have written "J.H. was the first white man to discover Crater Lake", and we would all know what he meant... Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:51, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- "In 1853, miner John Wesley Hillman made the first documented visit to the lake." I'm not proud of it or anything. But that was the best I could come up with. Kauffner (talk) 10:48, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks, I've used your idea for the sentence, but preferring "recorded" to "documented". Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:56, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- "In 1853, miner John Wesley Hillman made the first documented visit to the lake." I'm not proud of it or anything. But that was the best I could come up with. Kauffner (talk) 10:48, 21 December 2013 (UTC)