Talk:Cotopaxi

message: Whoever keeps re-editing this to call Cotopaxi "the world's highest active volcano" needs to get their facts straight.  It is definitely NOT the world's highest active volcano.  Llullaillaco volcano is historically active and is several thousand feet higher.  See the Global Volcanism Program reference cited in the Cotopaxi article (follow links to the Llullaillaco page) for details, which are corroborated by other sources.  Whether Ojos del Salado (which is higher yet) is "active" is a matter of definition and conjecture; no historic eruptions have been observed, but it is in a remote area, and the youth of some of the ejecta argues in favor of recent eruptions.  But there is no doubt about Llullaillaco.
Bill-on-the-Hill 14:39, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I found which source had the claim about the base width (NASA) and made it into an inline citation. Since the base of a mountain is an inherently slippery concept, it's important to cite this specifically. -- Spireguy 22:15, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Base width

message: Some of the external links are probably redundant and/or too commercial, and should be deleted per WP:EL. I may come back and prune later. -- Spireguy 22:15, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: Is it me, or does this thing look almost exactly the same as Fuji-san? If I were going to film a movie I wanted set in "Old Japan", I'd probably film it in Ecuador instead, knowing Cotopaxi is there to provide a convincing Fuji backdrop. Probably be a lot cheaper! --70.131.56.200 (talk) 03:15, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fuji of the west? 

message: Is that translation for "Mass Of Fire" confirmed anywhere? I raised this in the Mars Volta Octahedron trivia section last week and i dont think anyone could prove it's right...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.77.211.16 (talk) 22:15, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation of name 

message: last major eruption was 1904. The cited source actually has a typo in it.
: Not a typo, but a reference to a later, minor eruption in 1940 that did occur, and may have been repeated in 1942.  "Minor" eruptions of Cotopaxi, as with many Andean volcanoes, are generally rather poorly documented, and the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program, which does a heroic job of trying to collate all those reports into a single data base, is put in a position of making judgment calls about their reliability.  They frankly concede they're not sure what to make of the 1942 report (although other sources I've read consider that eruption fairly definite), although they accept the 1940 one as certain.  Note that the GVP has a longer report of the 1903-4 eruption.  -- Bill-on-the-Hill (talk) 17:10, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  last major eruption 

message: I was just reading a newspaper and found that Andre Roosevelt, an American explorer and photographer and Guy Henry Bullock, 1938 British Minister to Ecuador, took the very first photograph of the volcano's crater. Here is a 'clipping' of the article but I'm not sure if you need to have a subscription or not to view it. It is the 16 June 1938 edition of The San Bernardino County Sun, though it is an AP article. It even states that Andre is "a distant relative" of President Roosevelt. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 20:30, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  First photograph ever taken.