Talk:The Snow Hole

This article was nominated for deletion on 28 April 2009 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

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Hi - you may be new to Wikipedia, so a few points of procedure: the hangon tag is in addition to, and not a replacement for, the speedy deletion tag. I restored the speedy deletion tag but you are welcome to continue working on the article - the hangon tag lets the admins know that you are working on it and that will be taken into consideration. Alice (talk) 01:56, 13 April 2009 (UTC).[reply]

I think a separate page on the snow hole is warranted for several reasons. It is a unique location and a popular hiking desitnation. It has carvings of visitors dating back to the 1800's and its location is often incorreclty identified on many maps including google maps! The correct lat and long location I added on the article include pictures of the crevasse and one of the older engravings.

Those are all important points, but Wikipedia needs to see reliable, verifiable sources for things sais here. There is not supposed to be original research, but judicious summaries of existing knowledge. You can indent text by adding a : in front of it, with more: equally more indents. You can sign your comments with four ~ Alice (talk) 02:37, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Snow Hole vs. The snow hole ??

It appears that there is a redirect link for Snow Hole to an article about this location - you may want to consider merging your material into White Rock (Taconic Mountains). Alice (talk) 16:17, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I created that redirection when I created the intial snow hole page. it seems like there is sufficient external references to keep this page form being deleted. This is great! I also emailed the Hopkins Memorial Forest Director about this page. Hopefully they will have something to add. Vincent.labella (talk) 04:07, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since the prod (proposal for deletion) notice was removed by an experienced third party, it looks like the article is on its way to being a good one. Maybe someday I'll get to see it with my own eyes! We have ice caves here in Iowa with flora that go back to the last ice age, but it looks like this little patch might be too small for that. If you can find refs for something like that (maybe in local naturalists periodicals) even better. Cheers! Alice (talk) 12:31, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]