Talk:Carlsbad Caverns National Park

message: This article still reads like the promotional brochure from which it was apparently derived.  Wouldn't a little less poetic license and a little more hard fact be better for an online encyclopedia? Agateller 01:32, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Information or advertisement?

message: Discussion from Wikipedia:Featured article candidates:
Nominated by Bevo 03:08, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Featured article discussion

message: I returned the link to Guadalupe Mountains National Park.  Although not nearly as well known as Carlsbad Caverns, the two parks are closely tied.  They are in the same mountain range and have similar geology, flora and fauna.  The local park support association is called the Carlsbad Caverns / Guadalupe Mountains Association and is focused on both parks. () Guadalupe Mountains NP does have a few small caves, although nothing to compare with Carlsbad Caverns. H2O 03:19, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guadalupe Mountains National Park link 

message: For those wondering about the  templates, please see the FAR page for the relevant discussion. This article seems to have been a direct copy/paste job from http://www.carlsbad.caverns.national-park.com/info.htm. The initial version of this article is here. We are trying to track down whether or not the text was originally in the public domain. Any help would be appreciated. Gzkn 03:18, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Wikipedia:Copyright problems this article needs to either be deleted or rewritten. I'll check into what is salvageable in the next few days. What I'll probably do is create a new article at Talk:Carlsbad Caverns National Park/Temp by removing all the CV parts as suggested in the copyright problems page. Then an admin can delete this one and move the clean copy in its place. Burlywood 20:49, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've created Talk:Carlsbad Caverns National Park/Temp by stripping out all of the CV parts. In a day or so I'll notify the admins to replace the current article with the clean one. Burlywood 18:56, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Thank you! Burlywood 19:21, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy/paste job 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_center_of_the_earth
http://www.imdb.com/List?endings=on&&locations=Carlsbad%20Caverns%20National%20Park%20-%203225%20National%20Parks%20Highway,%20Carlsbad,
%20New%20Mexico,%20USA&&heading=18;with+locations+including;Carlsbad%20Caverns%20National%20Park%20-%203225%20National
%20Parks%20Highway,%20Carlsbad,%20New%20Mexico,%20USA 
according to the credits
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sarchi (talk • contribs) 17:12, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  movie location 

message: "Jim White explored many of the rooms and gave them their names". Who was Jim White? Was he one of these? Thanks, Zkip (talk) 13:06, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't believe that Jim White appears in that list.  Here is some information on him from an interview with his son conducted by the NPS: Cave History Update April 27, 2005. WTucker (talk) 17:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Here is another Cave History Update which attempts to discern who actually discovered what is now known as Carlsbad Caverns: Cave History Update February 25, 2004. WTucker (talk) 23:04, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Here is a good summary: Borderlands: Jim White Explored Carlsbad Caverns for Years. WTucker (talk) 23:11, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Zkip (talk) 14:30, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jim White 

message: This article could be of use in fleshing out the numbers on historic bat population in Carlsbad:
Carlsbad's 8 million 'lost' bats likely never existed. Interesting research and analysis, too. WTucker (talk) 15:16, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Large, historic population of bats likely never existed 

message: Does anyone have an online video of the tour?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.67.124.238 (talk) 08:08, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Video 

message: I did a bunch of formatting changes.
*changed the quote on commissioning to inline (it was hanging over sections and looked really crowded).  
*changed the room sections from 3rd level sections (===) to just bolded paragraph sections (;), i did this because the TOC was huge compared to the size of the article
*added gallery section (this is common on many us park pages) to feature more images, and to move the flowstone from inline to the gallery (again, too crowded)
If anyone has any comments, please do not hesitate!   Hopefully everyone thinks this was an improvement.
Jonverve (talk) 22:36, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks good. The only problem I have is that there are links to some of the named room sections. Those links will no longer work. I know of some in the James Larkin White article. There are other ways to control the depth of the TOC -- I cannot remember how right now; but, I will research it when I have time. Or. if you have other ideas of how to handle the links to the named rooms, I am listening. Thanks. WTucker (talk) 23:25, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

text: I took care of this problem by adding anchors. There are other ways to do something similar but this preserves your hard work completely. Thanks. WTucker (talk) 03:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formatting 

message: A careful reading shows that nowhere -- nowhere -- in the article is it mentioned when and by whom the Caverns were discovered!
Yes, there are a few lines about Jim White, but nowhere does it state that he was the discoverer, or when.
Yes, this information, and a lot more detail, is included in the article about Jim White.  But it is inexplicable that even the bare-bones information stating that he was the discoverer, and when, is omitted from the article.Daqu (talk) 00:29, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  How can the article leave out stating when and by whom Carlsbad Caverns were discovered??? 

message: "Carlsbad Caverns National Park is situated in a bed of limestone above groundwater level. During cavern development, it was within the groundwater zone."  Does anyone have sourcing for this?  It sounds legitimate, but need sourcing.  Request goes back to July. PAGauden (talk) 20:36, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speleogenesis Section - citation still needed 

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message: Are the caverns currently open? 
Lynn Boyd
lynnboyd71054 @gmail.com  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.218.6.123 (talk) 14:55, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is It still possible to go down into Carlsbad Caverns?