Talk:Yellowstone National Park

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Yellowstone Nationa Park. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 17#Yellowstone Nationa Park until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Regards, SONIC678 20:22, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Yellowstone Nationa Park" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Didn't there used to be an article listing all the deaths in Yellowstone? What happened to it? Should this page have a subsection about it? 73.62.184.213 (talk) 18:10, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm if they werent sourced/cited properly or from a reliable source maybe they got removed? If you really liked it and could find the proper sourcing you could add it back in.Eruditess (talk) 05:54, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deaths in Yellowstone 

message: I currently live in Mammoth Hot Springs and I just wanted to point out that this article's photo of "Fort Yellowstone" actually depicts the General Store and the Terrace Grill, not the historical Fort. I'd love to see it replaced.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.151.75.66 (talk) 21:13, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the information! That is interesting! Eruditess (talk) 23:24, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

text: Image swapped out with older image of Fort. Mike Cline (talk) 12:27, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fort Yellowstone 

message: This is a 2004 promotion that was reviewed back in 2007 and needs work.
The main issues are:
*Citations. There are multiple paragraphs that are completely uncited. There are also countless unsourced sentences.
*Manual of style: Many images violate WP:SANDWICH, and there are also some weasel terms/words.
*Relevance: A lot of information needs to be updated. A big part of all references is pre-2010. Information about visitors also needs to be updated.
This article is about one of the most important National Parks, and keeping its vital status (viewed >1m times/year) would be a significant achievement.
Wretchskull (talk) 11:18, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: While a maintenance update may be warranted, you do realize that individual sentences need not be sourced, and that the historical scholarship hasn't advanced much since 2010? Acroterion (talk) 13:14, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Upon a closer look, you're right. But to have a featured article with completely uncited paragraphs seems rather peculiar. Wretchskull (talk) 22:31, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that needs to be fixed, probably the result of 14 years of minor edits. Acroterion (talk) 22:50, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: We are old timers here so to someone that started editing a couple years ago 2007 must seem like the stone ages.--MONGO (talk) 23:30, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

text: It's really popular with student editors, so I'm not surprised that it has more issues. I'll see what I can do. Acroterion (talk) 23:06, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I can’t be much help because my computer is in repair and I am hunting and pecking from an iPad, but everything  that is cited to the National Parks should be brought up to their latest version, and any data that might have changed needs checking (things like numbers of animals, number of visitors, etc).  Thx!  SandyGeorgia (Talk)  23:09, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

text:  PS,  students are specifically requested to NOT edit featured articles ... if it happens again, you can contact the Wiki Ed staff person in the student template, and they will call them off.  SandyGeorgia (Talk)  23:10, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I mean more along the lines of informal student editors, who've read about or done an assignment concerning Yellowstone, and then arrive here. There's not much individual harm, but the cumulative effect is evident. Acroterion (talk) 23:57, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Wanted to mention that this article was brought to FA by someone other than myself, namely Mav in 2004, before I even started editing here. 18 years is a long time so yes, this article probably needs a major update but no way I can do that in the near term.--MONGO (talk) 15:57, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured article review needed 

message: For a park of this size, having a single point mark its location within Wyoming isn't really adequate. Would anyone be opposed to adding an outline map of Yellowstone in place of the current map, similar to Park County, Wyoming?  Mysterymanblue  02:08, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map in infobox 

message: The following paragraph is in the History section:
In 1806, John Colter, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, left to join a group of fur trappers. After splitting up with the other trappers in 1807, Colter passed through a portion of what later became the park, during the winter of 1807–1808. He observed at least one geothermal area in the northeastern section of the park, near Tower Fall. After surviving wounds he suffered in a battle with members of the Crow and Blackfoot tribes in 1809, Colter described a place of "fire and brimstone" that most people dismissed as delirium; the supposedly mystical place was nicknamed "Colter's Hell". Over the next 40 years, numerous reports from mountain men and trappers told of boiling mud, steaming rivers, and petrified trees, yet most of these reports were believed at the time to be myth.
I don't see support in either of these two sources for the claims that people didn't believe Colter, nor that Colter was wounded or fought in a battle, nor that people believed the other reports to be myth. The phrase "fire and brimstone" is also absent from both sources. This is concerning, as it is a featured article.
 —Lights and freedom (talk ~ contribs) 02:52, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Colter, fire and brimstone