Talk:Yellowstone National Park

Primary Resources

I'm adding references/ inline citations to some wonderful digitized primary resources on Yellowstone that might be of interest to historical researchers. There are quite of few of them, so I will be selective and not go overboard.

Caldera Volcano potential erruption

I've heard that animals have been noticed moving away from this volcano and that it has the potential to cover the USA with ash... is there any truth to this? Thank you Jerry Fitch — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.215.78.196 (talk) 18:53, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

None what so ever. Pure bunk. Do the research and see. --Mike Cline (talk) 19:53, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Utter nonsense. See this [1]. If the volcano (or any other large volcano) did erupt, it would potentially deposit ash over a large portion of North America, but that's not news. Acroterion (talk) 02:57, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Vandalism

Imlasalskal has vandalized this page at least 3 times since my edit, I think they should be banned. Bumblebritches57 (talk) 02:43, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Merger proposal edit request on 30 June 2015

I propose that Yellowstone National Park be merged into Yellowstone Plateau. I think that the content in the Yellowstone Plateau article is the explained in the context of Yellowstone National Park, and the Yellowstone Plateau article is of a reasonable size that the merging of Yellowstone National Park will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. 2601:183:4000:D5BD:A512:F53C:7378:77F4 (talk) 19:25, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

You want to merge this article, which is a featured article, into a one paragraph article?--MONGO 21:02, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

I'm assuming you want Yellowstone Plateau merged into Yellowstone National Park rather than the other way around, which would be absurd. However, I think a detailed (even if it at present is a single paragraph) article on the geological feature is undue weight in the article on the park. An FA on an NPS unit shoehorned into an article on a geologic feature would be bizarre. Acroterion (talk) 00:12, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Keep them separate, especially considering how odd the Yellowstone Plateau, which is actually a grouping of several distinct plateaus (see Plateaus of Yellowstone National Park) summary is. "It is a popular site for tourists" is a vague nod to what actually attracts the tourists, which is the park itself.Pistongrinder (talk) 18:57, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

First National Park in America

While the lead states that Yellowstone is believed to be the first national park in the world, it says nothing about Yellowstone being the first national park in America, which is a well-known and documented fact. This is inferred but not directly stated. I believe that this shouldn't be left out, as it is one of Yellowstone's many claims to fame. Is there a way to rewrite the lead to include this? Perhaps say, "Yellowstone, the first national park in America and widely held to be the first national park in the world..." Thoughts?Pistongrinder (talk) 19:06, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Y Good suggestion. Fixed --Mike Cline (talk) 19:45, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

long sentence in opening paragraph

I respectfully disagree. "Yellowstone, the first National Park in the U.S. and widely held to be the first national park in the world,[6] is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of the most popular features in the park." could be improved and simplified by turning it into two sentences. This feels like an attempt to cram information into one long sentence.

I'll make no further changes since my edit was reverted, it is not my intent to start that kind of back and forth but I at least wanted to state my opinion on the matter.

If I am alone in holding this opinion i will gracefully accept that as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hiersgarr (talk • contribs) 02:20, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Your edit rendered the following:

It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.^[4][5], and is widely held to be the first national park in the world,^[6]. It is is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of the most popular features in the park.^[7]

As I indicated in my edit summary when I reverted, you inadvertently embedded some of the new text inside reference tags, which made it invisible and meant the bit about its being widely held to be the first national park in the world was effectively removed.

I have no strong opinion on whether it should be one or two sentences. I thought it was fine as one, so I reverted instead of just fixing your error, but if you want to try again, I won't revert again. Just click Preview before you save and make sure you didn't accidentally hide any words you want our readers to see. And please don't let my reverting you dissuade you from making further edits. Rivertorch's Evil Twin (talk) 03:29, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Why does Yellowstone include tiny slivers of Montana and Idaho?

Seems odd. My guess is that it's to make sure the federal government would always have jurisdiction, and if so, there must be a story behind that, but that's just a guess. 47.20.160.104 (talk) 13:32, 3 February 2017 (UTC)captcrisis