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Image map (painting by Heinrich Berann)
I have created an image map of Heinrich C. Berann's painting of Yosemite. It already has a bunch of links to various features of the park, and hopefully, people will add more. I am adding it to the popular features subheading of the geography section for starters, but if someone thinks it could be better located, no problem. The template is set to 1000 pixels, which I think is the minimum necessary considering the detail and the links.
To add to the image map go to Template:Yosemite ImageMap.ArcticBartek (talk) 20:02, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
- Neat idea, but 1000px is way too wide. Perwikipedia:Image use policy, "...larger images should generally be a maximum of 550 pixels wide, so that they can comfortably be displayed on 800x600 monitors." Please resize map to that. The article generally has a bit of image glut. Some need to be taken out and others need to alternate left to right. --mav (talk) 03:32, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
- Fixed - I also moved the image up up. --mav (talk) 02:29, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
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- That image TOTALLY needs to be sized down. Either that or replaced with an actual photo with a good vantage point. I realize you might want to put your own image up there but even the caption that says to scroll over and click on an area in the photo doesn't work for me. I say we go with a normal photo. Fatrb38 (talk) 02:27, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
- I moved the Berann map to the bottom of the geography section so that it would not cover the TOC in my browser. I think it is a cool idea, but wonder if a subarticle, Yellowstone National Park geography, might show it, some of the current photos and additional photos to an advantage. I think that the 550 px limit could be adjusted, but 1000 (or even 800) does seem too large, particularly in a major article. Walter Siegmund (talk) 17:01, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
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- Support moving to new article. For parallel structure, can I suggest Geography of the Yosemite area (parallel to Geology of the Yosemite area and History of the Yosemite area) hike395 (talk) 22:40, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
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- I agree that Geography of the Yosemite area is better. Walter Siegmund (talk) 00:31, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
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Mummy found in the 1880s?
I've read on a few different websites that a mummy was found in a cave in Yosemite in the 1880s. It was a cave that had been sealed off with boulders, i.e. some kind of special tomb. It would have dated from neandarthal times, or something comparable. An especially odd aspect to the story is the mummy's height, which was something like 7'5". Anybody else ever read about this? I think it would be a neat thing to add to the article. --24.21.148.212 (talk) 08:51, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
- Please review WP:RS and WP:NOT. If your sources and content satisfy the relevant guidelines and policies, please add it to the article. Walter Siegmund (talk) 13:56, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
World Heritage Stie infobox vs. Protected area infobox
I see that there was discussion back in 2007 about there being 2 infoboxes in the article. I don't think there should be two. I came to the Talk page, anyhow, to suggest changing the infobox from one indicating "IUCN Category Ib (Wilderness Area)" to one indicating this as a World Heritage Site. I don't think many readers have heard of IUCN Category Ib, what the Protected areas infobox proclaims, while it seems more notable to me that this is a World Heritage Site. I am a member of both corresponding wikiprojects, wp:WHS and wp:PAREAS, by the way.
It is more significant and rare that Yosemite is a World Heritage Site. It is the only one in California, while there are many places in california listed on the IUCN's database. Would it be okay if I switched it over? doncram (talk) 06:28, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Yosemite Airpark?
There seems to be a unreferenced fact that there is an airpark in Yosemite. I just recently went to Yosemite, and I have never heard of an airpark, and Wikipedia is the only website that says there is one. I was going to remove it, but I'm not sure if it is really false or not. —Coastergeekperson04's talk@May/20/09 01:06
- It is Pine Mountain Lake Airport located near Groveland, CA, about 26 miles from the Yosemite N. P. boundaries. So, it is NEAR Yosemite but not IN Yosemite. Cullen328 (talk) 20:11, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hotels and concessioners
This subsection needs to be cited before being put back in the article. --mav (please help review urgent FAC and FARs) 19:54, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
See also: Collins v. Yosemite Park & Curry Co.In the early years of the park hello, different companies ran multiple hotels and resorts. These resorts included the Wawona Hotel, the Yosemite Park Lodge, and Camp Curry, a tent cabin site in Yosemite Valley. The Yosemite Park & Curry Company was formed in 1925 to consolidate those often-competing concessions. The Park Service granted the newly formed company exclusive right to operate hotels, restaurants and most stores in Yosemite. Two years later, the new company was headquartered on the mezzanine level of its new property, the Ahwahnee Hotel. The Yosemite Park & Curry Company ran the concessions in the park for over 50 years, until the company was sold in the late 1970s to United States Natural Resources, and a couple of years later to MCA Inc.. During those ownership changes, the Curry Company name continued.
In 1993, Matsushita Electric Works acquired MCA. United States Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lujan, Jr. objected to a Japanese firm operating concessions in a U.S. national park. To avoid delay of federal approval of the acquisition, Matsushita sold the concessions company, transferred ownership of the concession properties to the U.S. government, and the Yosemite Park & Curry Company name was retired.
The park concessions are now operated by DNC Parks and Resorts at Yosemite, Inc., part of the Delaware North Companies Parks and Resorts division.
- There was also a hotel called the Mountain House Hotel. It is mentioned in Ken Burns' "The National Parks - America's Best Idea". --24.20.129.18 (talk) 06:45, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Article getting crowded with photos
Another editor mentioned to me that this article was getting too crowded with photos. I have to agree. I will send some of them to the corresponding commons gallery, so that they will still be accessible. If you disagree, revert my edit and we can discuss here. —hike395 (talk) 13:35, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
- In the end, I dropped 6 photos, added 2, and rearranged some of the others. Most of the dropped photos were from the Geography section. I think it looks better now: comments and feedback welcome. —hike395 (talk) 14:40, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
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- It does look nicer... it's hard to get rid of pics from such a beautiful place!
Redwood National and State Parks designation REMOVED
"Redwood National and State Parks" is a VERY specific name for only REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK and the three state parks (Prarie Creek, Del Norte Coast, and Jedediah Smith) that are located adjacent to (actually touching) Redwood National Park. This category is in error listing any parks beyond those three State parks in addition to RNP and will confuse readers. No other parks are included in the historic management compact that exists in between only the three listed state parks and Redwood National Park. Disagree? Call/Check sources related to Redwood National Park Headquarters in Crescent City, CA...Norcalal (talk) 07:32, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
- Agreed. Yosemite is in a completely different part of the state. --mav (reviews needed) 17:30, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Double Rainbow
Do you think Double Rainbow should be mentioned?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.56.217.206 (talk) 15:28, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
- There's already an article about it: Double Rainbow (viral video), I don't think we need to mention it here. —hike395 (talk) 15:57, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
- I agree. Walter Siegmund (talk) 00:11, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
- I agree also. Just saw the video for the first time. It has little to do with Yosemite per se. Cullen328 (talk) 00:32, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
- It doesn't need mentioning. --Monterey Bay (talk) 02:03, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
- I agree also. Just saw the video for the first time. It has little to do with Yosemite per se. Cullen328 (talk) 00:32, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
- I agree. Walter Siegmund (talk) 00:11, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
somebody fix this please: January averages 37.7 °C (99.9 °F)
"January averages 37.7 °C (99.9 °F), while July averages 72.7 °F (22.6 °C), though in summer the nights are much cooler than the hot days" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.0.99.190 (talk) 12:39, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Adding information about I-120 and the two trails
How about adding some information about I-120 and adjacent places where tourists can stay? It would be good to put some information about the two major road trails in the park. (TomPaul67 (talk) 01:33, 12 July 2011 (UTC))
- 120 is not an interstate, and in Yosemite is referred to as the Tioga Road. Roads are not really significant in this article.Jasper Deng (talk) 05:21, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Average 6-7 deaths per year - should have its own section.
http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2011/07/national-park-deaths-random-or-reckless/178043/1 and http://news.yahoo.com/600-foot-fall-marks-14th-yosemite-death-232529077.html Would be a public service to keep people coming to wikipedia informed of the number of fatalities each year in each park imho. Pär Larsson (talk) 14:31, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
FWIW - 1861 photos - Carleton Watkins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/dec/30/yosemite-photographs-carleton-watkins-in-pictures#/?picture=383573763&index=0 shows some 18 picturs from 1861 reports that the J Paul Getty museum is publishing a book on the 150 anniversary of the photos first being displayed in New York. Gnangarra 12:33, 1 January 2012 (UTC)