Talk:Council Crest Park

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http://www.katu.com/news/local/127491293.html

--Another Believer _(Talk) 21:13, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Topo-scope or notpo-scope, that is the question[edit]

@SJ Morg: Per WP:BRD, please reconsider reverting of my wikilinking of "observation area" to toposcope. Oregon Geographic Names says

The city later added a pleasant, open observation area encircled by a low wall with locating arrows pointing to the five prominent mountains visible from the crest, Jefferson, Hood, Saint Helens, Adams, and Rainier.

This to exactly describe what WP says at toposcope:

Large toposcopes may be circular paved areas, with numerous plaques around the perimeter, each indicating a particular feature of the landscape.

Thanks, and happy editing. YBG (talk) 21:12, 21 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I'll restore the wikilink you added. I do not have a copy of Oregon Geographic Names, the source cited by the relevant inline citation in this article, so I had no idea what the cited text said. "Observation area" (the only description given in the CC Park WP article) is vague, and I did not know whether it featured any kind of "graphic display ....", the description given in the first sentence of the toposcope article or not, until you provided the text here. And I failed to notice that the answer is provided by the photo currently displayed in the infobox. Thanks for clarifying. – SJ Morg (talk) 09:17, 22 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not worries, another opportunity to practice WP:AGF. And, truth be told, when I added the wikilink, I was going solely by WP:OR, having visited CC Park many times since flying kites there as a child with my father. And further, while I glanced through toposcope, I didn't recall seeing the final paragraph quoted above. But after your revert, I had a look at OGN and then a closer look at toposcope and found they matched nicely. But I rather suspect that toposcope, which is a new word to me, is used primarily for the smaller variety rather described earlier in that article rather than the larger variety mentioned only briefly and exemplified atop Council Crest. Do you think it worth citing the above OGN quotation in the article? YBG (talk) 15:26, 22 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have no opinion on that, but no objection. My interest in the editing the article was mainly just to add the streetcar-history info., which, for an article about a park, is unusually relevant. – SJ Morg (talk) 05:57, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]