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This article is weak. Rhyolite is one of the most famous ghost towns in the United States. Please expand in anyway possible. A mcmurray 05:35, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Tomorrow I will add to the article, though much of my knowledge of the city (not "ghost town") is from non-scholarly sources. -- Desertphile 03:50, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to get this article up to at least GA standards. I believe it's there. I hoped not to tread on toes by removing the gallery. The Manual of Style recommends working the images into the main text and eliminating the gallery if possible. The original article wasn't long enough to accommodate many photos in the main text, but that is no longer the case. In addition, some of the images in the gallery had license problems, which probably would not have survived the eagle eyes of reviewers. User:Tillman made a helpful change yesterday by splitting off the new mine stuff into a section of its own. If anyone else has ideas or suggestions for improvement, please post them. Finetooth ( talk) 00:14, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
I thought I should explain why I have removed another image gallery from this article. A lot of people have taken photographs of Rhyolite, and it's tempting to add collections of them here. However, WP:IG advises against adding images or collections of images that do not directly illuminate an article's content or that are repetitive. In the case of the gallery I just removed, other problems were also evident. For example, the image of the ghost rider with the bicycle is not part of Rhyolite but rather part of the Goldwell Open Air Museum and is protected by copyright. A photo of it cannot be legally published on Wikipedia and must be removed. On the other hand, properly licensed photos can be uploaded to the Commons, a huge repository of varied images with a category specifically devoted to Rhyolite. Please see Commons:Category:Rhyolite, Nevada. I would urge photographers to set up Commons accounts and to learn how to upload and license their favorite self-made photos to the Commons, where readers can see them by clicking on the links like the one in the External links section of this article. WP:COMMONS is a good place to begin to learn how all of this works. It includes a link to a tutorial that explains how to set up a Commons account and get started. Finetooth ( talk) 20:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
"The Goldwell Open Air Museum lies on private property just south of the ghost town, which is on public property overseen by the Bureau of Land Management." -- from the lead.
My recollection is that the Bottle House, Train Depot, and a few other parcels are still privately-owned, but all of my Rhyolite files are in storage. Anyone else? TIA, Pete Tillman ( talk) 18:19, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
re: land ownership cannot remember which site it was on, but one of the main rhyolite (volunteer/supporter) sites had an extensive set of images of the restoration of the bottle house, in the 2000's (forgot the year too! >__<) the same site (pretty sure it was the same site... ) mentioned that there had been a land swap (or some deal) with barrick gold in the early 2000's(?) with the train station (previously barrick property) becoming a part of the park. the plan was to restore it & use it as a visitor's centre, etc. ...when they get the $ to fund the work. the fencing seems to date to barrick's ownership & is probably still in place for safety (& anti-vandalism) reasons (& possibly a bit of inertia). the more recent photos of the station showed some decay & wear; hopefully it's mostly cosmetic, but some large trim pieces were missing from the exterior decor, & there were a few cracks that did not look good. don't think it's going to come down (hope not!), but they probably don't want people to wander thru & risk getting brained by a lovely chunk of early 20th century spanish-colonial-revival masonry...
sry this is so vague; i skimmed thru the material briefly, months ago (don't have time to go dig it up atm, when i do i'll add links).
the info seemed pretty solid, tho: unless the station decays (or gets torched/vandalized/etc.) beyond repair, it should end up getting a full restoration & inclusion in park operations "some day".
also; i've got more pd-pre-1923 rhyolite media (photos) to upload @ wmc, but i need to backtrace the site links where i found the stuff & i've just got too much else on my plate right now. will add to the cat @ wmc piecemeal, as i can. (aside from the S&M mill & mine 3-panel) i've got 2 general views of the town circa 1905-8 & a 1908 town plat/map uploaded thus far.
@ tillman: agreed with finetooth; you do good work! :)
Lx 121 ( talk) 23:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
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This article is weak. Rhyolite is one of the most famous ghost towns in the United States. Please expand in anyway possible. A mcmurray 05:35, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Tomorrow I will add to the article, though much of my knowledge of the city (not "ghost town") is from non-scholarly sources. -- Desertphile 03:50, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to get this article up to at least GA standards. I believe it's there. I hoped not to tread on toes by removing the gallery. The Manual of Style recommends working the images into the main text and eliminating the gallery if possible. The original article wasn't long enough to accommodate many photos in the main text, but that is no longer the case. In addition, some of the images in the gallery had license problems, which probably would not have survived the eagle eyes of reviewers. User:Tillman made a helpful change yesterday by splitting off the new mine stuff into a section of its own. If anyone else has ideas or suggestions for improvement, please post them. Finetooth ( talk) 00:14, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
I thought I should explain why I have removed another image gallery from this article. A lot of people have taken photographs of Rhyolite, and it's tempting to add collections of them here. However, WP:IG advises against adding images or collections of images that do not directly illuminate an article's content or that are repetitive. In the case of the gallery I just removed, other problems were also evident. For example, the image of the ghost rider with the bicycle is not part of Rhyolite but rather part of the Goldwell Open Air Museum and is protected by copyright. A photo of it cannot be legally published on Wikipedia and must be removed. On the other hand, properly licensed photos can be uploaded to the Commons, a huge repository of varied images with a category specifically devoted to Rhyolite. Please see Commons:Category:Rhyolite, Nevada. I would urge photographers to set up Commons accounts and to learn how to upload and license their favorite self-made photos to the Commons, where readers can see them by clicking on the links like the one in the External links section of this article. WP:COMMONS is a good place to begin to learn how all of this works. It includes a link to a tutorial that explains how to set up a Commons account and get started. Finetooth ( talk) 20:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
"The Goldwell Open Air Museum lies on private property just south of the ghost town, which is on public property overseen by the Bureau of Land Management." -- from the lead.
My recollection is that the Bottle House, Train Depot, and a few other parcels are still privately-owned, but all of my Rhyolite files are in storage. Anyone else? TIA, Pete Tillman ( talk) 18:19, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
re: land ownership cannot remember which site it was on, but one of the main rhyolite (volunteer/supporter) sites had an extensive set of images of the restoration of the bottle house, in the 2000's (forgot the year too! >__<) the same site (pretty sure it was the same site... ) mentioned that there had been a land swap (or some deal) with barrick gold in the early 2000's(?) with the train station (previously barrick property) becoming a part of the park. the plan was to restore it & use it as a visitor's centre, etc. ...when they get the $ to fund the work. the fencing seems to date to barrick's ownership & is probably still in place for safety (& anti-vandalism) reasons (& possibly a bit of inertia). the more recent photos of the station showed some decay & wear; hopefully it's mostly cosmetic, but some large trim pieces were missing from the exterior decor, & there were a few cracks that did not look good. don't think it's going to come down (hope not!), but they probably don't want people to wander thru & risk getting brained by a lovely chunk of early 20th century spanish-colonial-revival masonry...
sry this is so vague; i skimmed thru the material briefly, months ago (don't have time to go dig it up atm, when i do i'll add links).
the info seemed pretty solid, tho: unless the station decays (or gets torched/vandalized/etc.) beyond repair, it should end up getting a full restoration & inclusion in park operations "some day".
also; i've got more pd-pre-1923 rhyolite media (photos) to upload @ wmc, but i need to backtrace the site links where i found the stuff & i've just got too much else on my plate right now. will add to the cat @ wmc piecemeal, as i can. (aside from the S&M mill & mine 3-panel) i've got 2 general views of the town circa 1905-8 & a 1908 town plat/map uploaded thus far.
@ tillman: agreed with finetooth; you do good work! :)
Lx 121 ( talk) 23:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
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