Talk:Derinkuyu underground city

message: The number of floors in the complex is mentioned at one place as being 13, and at another as being 5. What is the actual number of floors, or is there a more complex explanation? Edit: I emailed the volunteers about this, and they took out both references. Philiparcturus (talk) 00:59, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of floors

message: Article states "2000 sq. ft, total size 7000 sq. ft." That's the size of one to three single-family homes in the US. I find it very difficult to believe that 3,000 to 50,000 people could be housed in such a tiny area! Can someone please find the actual dimensions of the city?
Bigtrick 17:36, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What's the actual size of the city?

message: "...the raiders, aware of the dangers awaiting them inside, tried to make the local people leave their shelters by poisoning their wells." Really? Can we have a source for this? It's probably true, but lets have some research! Also, it is a fact that we don't really know WHO built this or really how old it is. There are theories here and there and some are reasonable but it is a mystery. Let's have the article reflect that. And lets have some real research. This is a terrible article! Gingermint (talk) 07:16, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Not a Lot of Facts

message: I wanted to insert the current population of Derinkuyu as a comparison of the capacity of the underground city, but our article has no data.
Could you add it?  Error 23:55, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Population

message: LoveMonkey: I disagree that Sümela Monastery and Kaymaklı Monastery ought to be attached to the already too long "See also" list. With the exception of the scholar Spiro Kostof, all of the other sites are in Cappedocia. Sumela and Kaymaakli are in the Pontus. Let us limit the "See also" list to those sites directly related, both temporally and geographically, to Derinkuyu. Regards,  Aramgar (talk) 16:35, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is written for an English Wikipedia that has an audence outside of the middle east. The sites are all connected in that they are tourist attractions for Westerns. The sites are all Christian in some relation, and the sites are all in Turkey. The article is so small already that it seems that anything related to it would expand the article, so bloat appears as inappropriate term. LoveMonkey (talk) 17:42, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: LoveMonkey: I will have to disagree with you. According to WP:NOT, Wikipedia is not a travel guide. If we were to list every Christian monument in Anatolia that might be of interest to tourists, we would have a very long "See also" list indeed. Sümela Monastery and Kaymaklı Monastery are in the Pontus and do not belong. Regards, Aramgar (talk) 20:24, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: See also bloat

message: I saw this online , and came here to see if there were any sources to corroborate it, but found nothing. Is it correct?--84.13.82.245 (talk) 01:41, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was the city discovered by a man renovating his home? 

message: I don't understand the sentence "The large 55 m ventilation shaft appears to have been used as a well." It's clear that they both can't use the same space at the same time, so explanatory text is necessary. Or is the sentence completely false? Muistinorsu (talk) 14:39, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Air and water from the same shaft? 

message: The following coordinate fixes are needed for Derinkuyu underground city. Looks like a random location withnin the town. What about 38.366667,34.75 ? Or something like that. WikiHannibal (talk) 14:28, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Open Street Map shows the entrance to the underground city at about , so I've changed the coordinates to correspond to that location. The coordinates you suggest are outside the town. Better? Deor (talk) 17:12, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:   Thanks. That seems to be the spot. I pasted wrong coordinates copied from tr:Derinkuyu. (NB Google shows "Derinkuyu Yeraltı Şehri" as approximately at 38.372724, 34.733818, which seems wrong.) WikiHannibal (talk) 18:05, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error 

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message: We do not need a citation needed template at the end of each paragraph. It looks ridiculous. Compared to many other articles, this one has sufficient references already. If some editors are disturbed by this they may add a template at the beginning of the article. It will help keep it clean and tidy. 786wave (talk) 15:57, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Remarkably, citation needed templates are needed in places where there aren't citations! The templates aren't just at the end of paragraphs, but sporadically throughout prose; were they to be removed, people may assume entire unsourced sentences are covered by citations relevant to sentences following them, thus they are needed inline. This is also why one header template is inappropriate for this article - identifying which parts are unsourced is useful. And, of course, you didn't add such a header template after removing all the cn templates, which is bad practice. Your opinion of "clean and tidy" is nothing against the WP:V pillar policy. Kingsif (talk) 18:11, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

text: I'm not the one shouting at everyone who tries to help me. Please take a mirror, then a chill pill, then put in the effort to find the sources since you're so adamant on removing cn tags. Kingsif (talk) 23:56, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation Needed templates everywhere 

message: The lengthy quotes contained in the References section are making the section increasingly harder to use each time an additional large block of text gets added, which must be scrolled past in order to view the entire list. Some of the cited pages are linked to corresponding pages of online versions of the literature they were drawn from, yet the full quotes are still included in the References section which seems redundant. Could these quotes be removed to reduce clutter and streamline the section? For those references not attached to online literature, could their quotes be somehow trimmed for improved readability of the section? Perhaps with a more liberal implementation of “…” to indicate material has been omitted, or by another means suggested in the manual of style. Down time (talk) 15:33, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Sometimes quotations are appropriate with web links (if it's from different parts of the text, if it's not immediately obvious, if it might be restricted, etc.) but otherwise that is exactly what should happen, feel free to do it yourself. Kingsif (talk) 18:25, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

text: Are you stalking me?! If you can read, by the way, you can clearly see that I told the other user above to, er, make the edits they said they wanted to. Kingsif (talk) 23:58, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Condensing of the References section 

message: The references seem to supply any peer reviewed studies abut finding at the site.  See other topics.  This is imaginatively written with little demonstrated fact. 2600:1700:9081:A350:C1DD:FBE2:4D06:7880 (talk) 00:48, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  References