Talk:Interior Plateau

message: At present all Interior links redirect to this article, in the context of the British Columbia Interior or Interior of British Columbia.  This is a different context than the purely geographic-feature nature of this article, so I'm proposing a new article on "The Interior" be created; an italicized dab at the start of the page could say for the Interior region of British Columbia see Interior of British Columbia; for the Interior of Washington see Eastern Washington (or Columbia Plateau?).Skookum1 21:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: intended creation of [[Interior of British Columbia]]

message: The intro is still as it was before the addition of material on the Columbia Plateau, i.e. ending on the south with the southward extensions of the Thompson Plateau and Okanagan Highland into Washington; I'd thought when first composing this article that "Interior Plateau" was a Canadian-only designation so hadn't presumed to write in the US portions of it, as User:Murderbike and others have since done.  Which is all fine and dandy, and noting also taht we need a wider-scope map, maybe showing the Fraser/Thompson/Columbia/Snake Plateau divisions on it (unless the Snake is a subdivision of the Columbia, I'm not clear on that...), here's a copy-paste of teh current intro, plus a few changes:
:The Interior Plateau comprises a large region of central British Columbia, [[Washington, Oregon and western Idaho, and lies between the Cariboo, Monashee Mountains, Selkirk, Salish and Rocky Mountains on the east, and the Hazelton Mountains, Coast Mountains and Cascade Range on the west. To the north the plateau is limned by the Omineca Mountains, a division of the group of ranges spanning the Northern Interior of British Columbia known as the Interior Mountains.  The Interior Plateau has three main subdivisions, the Columbia Plateau, the Thompson Plateau, and the Fraser Plateau.  The Thompson Plateau includes sub-plateaux including the Bonaparte Plateau, while the Fraser Plateau is subdivided into the Cariboo Plateau, Chilcotin Plateau, Nechako Plateau and McGregor Plateau, plus a number of mountain ranges.  Physiographically, the Interior Plateau is a section of the larger Northern Plateaus province, which in turn is part of the Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division.
That's for starters; I omitted a second sentence describing the Interior Mountains which would get too cumbersome if fully re-detailed; also in there somewhere the putative inclusion of the Quesnel, Shuswap and Okanagan Highlands, and I didn't bother listing hte many named subranges of the Fraser Plateau, not for the intro anyway.  Re the mention fo the Rockies, I'm unclear as to the actual named ranges on the eastsern flank of hte Columbia Plateau, the Selkirks and Salish (or is it the Cabinets) on the northern part; is it the Clearwater Mountains to their south?  Naming "the Rockies", which those are considered part of in the US reckoning (whereas teh Selkirks in BC are not) seems too vague, it would be better to specify the ranges; and I put Oregon in there; "North of the Great Basin" got taken out in some edit, but it should be in the area description, following the "wahts' the north" I'd think.  Anyway I'll leave this for now, hoping an American editor will tweak what I've put together; before I wiki-leave again I'm going to try and straighten out Fraser Plateau, which was miswritten (by me) and I haven't had time/inclination to fix it.....but fixing htis was a precurosr to that, so....Skookum1 (talk) 00:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Revised intro

message: Almost the entire history section needs to be rewritten.  It is largely false and isn't consistent with any current or past publications or gray literature.
:WP:Sofixit and please sign your posts ~~~~Skookum1 (talk) 01:16, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: History section needs re-vamp

message: Just to note that the coords I placed to make AnomeBot happy are from BCGNIS () and do not reflect the wider definition which may include Washingont-Idaho-Oregon (but which I still haven't gotten a clear answer to, despite the presence of some content relating to the Columbia Plateau).  The coordinates may have to be adjusted, arbitrarily, if the definition is widened from the one used by the BC Govt/Holland.  Thoughts please if any....Skookum1 (talk) 03:10, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: note on coords

message: What is the altitude of the plateau?  Geo Swan (talk) 16:04, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  to do