Talk:Golden Gate

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Discovery

The texts says, "In 1769, Sgt José Francisco Ortega, the leader of a scouting party sent north along the San Francisco Peninsula by Don Gaspar de Portolá from their expedition encampment in San Pedro Valley to locate the Point Reyes headlands, reported back to Portolá that he could reach the location because of his encounter with the strait." Since Point Rayes is North of the Strait and San Pedro Valley is South of the strait, shouldn't that read, "he could not reach the location" instead?

Glacial-age scour

The text was attributing the depth of the strait to tidal scour alone. I corrected it from common knowledge. --Wetman 14:24, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

I think I detected some vandalism: "Farallon Islands" at "27 miles" was changed to "Gilligan Islands" and "271 miles". Could someone fix this please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.212.16.177 (talk) 08:26, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Summary Length

The summary is longer and more detailed than the article itself. Yay for rookie editing.69.227.247.230 (talk) 07:09, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reason for the name

I read the Golden Horn article but could not find a reasoning there for the name. Can someone elaborate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Donpdonp (talk • contribs) 04:32, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the Golden Gate got that name during the 1849 gold rush, when people arriving by ship viewed it as the gateway to the California gold fields, though I don't have a reliable source to cite for that information. —Stepheng3 (talk) 16:28, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

When I get home, I'll check my copy of Gudde and see what it actually says about the Golden Gate. —Stepheng3 (talk) 16:29, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Funny it's always pisspoor articles that are protected

I have a theory that the only true contributors on this site are the IPs. Anyone who sets up an account is just playing the wiki game of advancement. This protected article is just another fine example of that trend. Issues of this article are:

it reads like a list of unrelated facts
there is no explanation to the facts given - they are just presented and the reader is left to go figure
the reason the Golden Gate is called the Golden Gate is buried within the history section
there is no narrative structure with some just going off-topic
because this article is written by American-education-system educated Americans, the English grammar is substandard

Not much is going to improve as long as the keep out sign is up. 81.159.166.176 (talk) 11:32, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]