Talk:Long Valley Caldera

message: REVERT ; Please read an article before you make such changes - Long Valley is NOT a city in California, it is a geographic feature, and therefore no comman is needed and is in fact misleading
:Maveric, I read the article. Then I did a google search on "Long Valley California" and found a bunch of pages that actually contained "Long Valley, California."
:Now, this means one of two things:
#My first suspicion, that "Long Valley" is the name of a geographical feature in California, was correct.
#The sites that came up on a google search were incorrect, and the name of the geographical feature is actually "Long Valley California", occasionally shortened to "Long Valley". This seems unlikely to me, but if I am wrong, please correct me.
:I wouldn't consider "San Joaquin Valley California" or "Death Valley California" or "Central Valley California" to be correct, either. I would put commas in all of those, even though they're not cities. Cities don't enter into it; one thing being inside another is the issue at hand. -- Brion VIBBER
Fair enough. --maveric149
Hey Brion, how did you do such a perfect resize of the image? Can the Gimp do that? --maveric149
:Yes -- but you have to remember to switch the image mode from indexed to RGB before you resize, or it doesn't interpolate. Brion VIBBER, Monday, April 1, 2002
Very cool, thanx -maveric149
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Is this USGS schematic of any use? http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/f/f3/Schematic_long_valley_caldera-small.gif It's an "unused image" Image:Schematic_long_valley_caldera-small.gif Its also a .png format. Wetman 23:44, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: confusion over name

message: Is it okay that almost the entire "Recent Geology" section is lifted word-for-word from this site? 68.8.108.62 06:46, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's OK, because the USGS material is public domain (and marked in the reference section). Should have inline citations, though, I will add. hike395 21:08, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Should the copyright violation tag be removed now? Eeekster (talk) 22:07, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for clarifying that, guys.  I was sort of shocked the other day, doing my research paper, to discover it was word-for-word what the USGS site said.  I can't believe that's actually allowed! I removed the tag.  Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon (talk) 04:21, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In general works done by the fedoral government are not subject to copyright. After all we pay for them! Eeekster (talk) 07:10, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Let's not confuse the issue of copyright with plagiarism.  Even items in the public domain can be plagiarized.  If something is lifted word-for-word, it must include quotation marks, and not simply a citation, although that must be included as well.  The best thing, of course, is to not lift anything word-for-word unless necessary or appropriate, and do a little original writing. Tmangray (talk) 04:09, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've seen somewhere a template for saying that text was lifted directly from a certain encyclopedia...surely this is a customizable template that could be used here?  Anyone familiar with such a template? Bob the Wikipedian (talk) 20:36, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Found it; adding it to the bottom of the page. Bob the Wikipedian (talk) 20:46, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism?

message: There is currently a wiki link to an article entitled "Glass Mountain," which happens to be some random band with no obvious relation whatsoever to anything even vaguely related to the Long Valley Caldera. Since Glass Mountain is a) not highly integral to the article, and b) the link to "Glass Mountain" is pointless in the context of the article, I propose that someone should unlink it, or link to an article on something actually (at least tangentially) relevant such as obsidian flows, etc...
Excuse me, I was incorrect. It's actually an album. My point stands.
:I've delinked it. We link to obsidian straight after it's mentioned, which is probably enough. -- Avenue 09:33, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Glass Mountain

message: is this big lovely thing holding a town/city? Because Im looking at this thing from an airel point and it seem to have isolated large buildings and little communitys in it! If there is....WHY ISNT IT ILLEGAL?!
--Lolichan4u 17:27, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mammoth Lakes, California (population 7,000) is inside the caldera and a few other small towns are not far from it. Hopefully they will be able to evacuate to a safe distance (Mexico?) before the next supereruption there. --mav (talk) 04:50, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  City of caldera 

message: Is there a preferred way to add the references to the Geobox? --Burntnickel (talk) 22:28, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps footnotes= ? I'm not sure. hike395 (talk) 02:52, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

text: Could add | references  =  as the last line of the geobox, then refs for the geobox info could be added w/ ref tags (see Template:Infobox mineral. Or simply add ... to any single line in the geobox you want to reference. Vsmith (talk) 04:04, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geobox 

message: Should I change the Infobox from Infobox Valley to Infobox Mountain?--Guanlong wucaii 10:16, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Explanation: Most pages on calderas and volcanoes etc use Mountain Infobox.--Guanlong wucaii 10:17, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think so. The valley-related information doesn't seem crucial. The mountain infobox isn't ideal either, but at least it has slots for some details about volcanoes. Perhaps we should think about creating a new infobox for calderas (or building one on top of the  template, say). -- Avenue (talk) 12:47, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

text: I'm personally unsure what that means. We can't generate our own conclusions nor can we predict the future. I don't want it to mess up my camping trip to the Whitney Portal next spring however. :) SkepticalRaptor (talk) 02:07, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox Type