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Bi-monthly focus article

The Bi-monthly focus article is suppose to change twice in one month right, Horsepens 40 has been their almost four times the implied time?

Plus the current article (Horsepens 40) selected seems kind of regional, it could be a bigger draw than I know. I was wondering if the goal is to get all the members of this project working on an article, might be better to select articles that more editors would have experience with and/or might be higher interest/traffic pages. Granted stubs or articles needing grammar/structural change probably are nominations that anyone could improve relatively easily. WikipedianYknOK 07:28, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I got a little lazy.

Anyway, Horsepens 40 is one of the largest bouldering sites on the U.S. east coast, definitely the largest in the southeast U.S., so it's a little more than regional. It's basically the Joshua Tree for those of us on the East Coast. ⇒ SWATJester 08:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

category

We need a category for "Climbing Routes" and one for "Bouldering routes" to fit into the category tree system.⇒ SWATJester 02:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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Climbing organisations

We need a generic Climbing clubs (organisations?) article to pull together what such a club is, and to list those with articles already. A summary of this article could then be used to replace the lists of climbing organisations that are in some of the climbing articles i.e Ice climbing. If I can find a reference for a suitable opening paragraph I'll start a stub. Kevin 00:55, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi Kevin, I've just made the article Climbing clubs but as yourself I couldn't find any references for the lead section. Nk.sheridan   Talk 22:32, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Rock and Ice climbing club at AfD

Just a note to inform members that the Rock and Ice climbing club is currently up for deletion, see: Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Rock and Ice climbing club. Espresso Addict (talk) 02:00, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Climbing portal

Come check out the Climbing portal I started. It still needs a lot of work as of now, so any help would be appreciated. Any suggestions could go here or on its talk page, but I would rather you be bold! Jkasd 02:51, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Tags

Looks like this is a quiet project - have found lots of category pages un tagged - and some issues seem to be a year or so old - so simply trying to make climbing catgeories link in with the project - hope someone is still active - it looks good on the better articles - cheers SatuSuro 04:12, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Wilderness Diarrhea Getting Killed

Dunno how active this page is, but it seems remotely possible you'd be interested in this. Wilderness Diarrhea is getting merged into Travelers Diarrhea by a couple of zealots who seem to have no concept of outdoor interests.

I get around a lot in the outdoors and rarely treat water, but WD had some good stuff in in it

After a couple of weeks of calm discussion, I went ballistic and no longer want to participate. Rational voices might help.

Calamitybrook (talk) 02:58, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Info box template for rock climbing routes

I would like to make a "info box template" for rock climbing routes. I think it would be worth while to add WP pages about routes that are particularly famous and historic. In no way should WP try to be rockclimbing.com, moutainproject.com, or summitpost.org. But the especially historic routes like those in the 50 classic climbs deserve a page if every Simpson's episode deserves a page. I might try to start this soon but if anyone starts one before me let me know and I'll help out.--OMCV (talk) 19:12, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

I made a template for a "rock climbing route" "info box". Check it out, Template:Infobox rock climbing route. I think suggestions would be best left at the talk page for Template:Infobox rock climbing route/doc; or if you know what your are doing with template just jump in and do some editing. The documentation descriptions needs some help and maybe the coordinate interface. I don't know how to go between deg-decimals and deg-min-sec notation nor how to make the coordinate section robust. Any help would be appreciated.--OMCV (talk) 04:11, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Would it make sense to move this to Template:Infobox climbing route and make it a bit more general? If we're going to create articles for the fifty classics, which is a great goal, not all of them are rock routes. Jfire (talk) 20:16, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

I agree completely and moved the template. Change it any way you like. Glad to hear someone else thinks its a good idea to put a page up for each of the 50 and others routes of similar significance.--OMCV (talk) 04:24, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Messed up mark-up.

For anyone who knows the wiki mark-up better then me there is an error WP:WikiProject Climbing that is messing with the headers. This is what the table of contents (and headers) looks like on my browser. Any help would be great. I'll through up an example of the climbing route template once things are fixed.--OMCV (talk) 05:44, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

1 ?UNIQf4ba90052c1aa84-h-0--QINU? Guidelines

• 1.1 ?UNIQf4ba90052c1aa84-h-1--QINU?Personalities and people
• 1.2 ?UNIQf4ba90052c1aa84-h-2--QINU?Mountains

Should be fixed now. Merry Christmas, Jfire (talk) 20:13, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

The bouldering article looks like it was vandalized

I put the questionable text on the Talk page. I didn't change anything because I'm brand new to Misplaced Pages. Butternutt12 (talk) 08:49, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

It's fixed now. Read my note on the Bouldering talk page for the full response. Thanks again :) -Clueless (talk) 11:54, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

David A. Sowles Memorial Award

We should consider making sure that we have an article/stub for every recipient of the David A. Sowles Memorial Award - https://americanalpineclub.org/award/5 . (I will be contributing minimally if at all to this myself.) -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 00:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I think such articles would be deleted if the recipient is only notable for receiving that particular award. The current article on the award looks fine to me. In fact, the award article should probably be merged with the club article.Jarhed (talk) 23:56, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Need a new infobox

We need an infobox for individual climbers. There is a mocked-up one on this climber's page: Michael_Reardon_(climber), but there needs to be a standard one like the one for mountains. It should be similiar to the one used on musical artists, like this one: Ricky Nelson. There is some talk on the project page about a "climbing" infobox. I can't imagine what such a box should apply to. After we have the infobox, we should start implementing it on climber pages.Jarhed (talk) 23:00, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Climbing portal

I see that someone started a climbing portal back in 2006. It was deleted by an administrator, but only because nobody fixed it. I would be glad to try to start a new one if we need it. I think it should be the "Mountaineering and Climbing" portal.Jarhed (talk) 23:05, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Standardized formatting for route names

I was wondering if there was an agreed upon format for the title of climbing routes. I've seen them formatted a number of different ways, for example from Jim Bridwell:

• 1974 Freestone"", Geek Towers, Yosemite Falls, Yosemite, CA, USA <<-- Typo perhaps. All italicized.
• 1978 Zenith, Half Dome, Yosemite, CA, USA with Kim Schmitz <<-- Route italicized.
• 1979 Southeast Ridge of Cerro Torre, Patagonia, Argentina with Steven Brewer (first alpine-style ascent of the peak) <<-- Route and peak italicized, notable information in parentheses

I would think only the route name should be italicized, and it should be capitalized as well, but what about ridges and faces named after compass directions? Are those proper nouns, or adjectives modifying the peak name? I would capitalize "North Slope, Alaska", but I would not capitalize "northern slope of Alaska". In the above examples, see "Southeast Ridge of Cerro Torre". Any climbers out there with an iron-grip on grammar? If we come to a consensus, maybe we can put it on the WikiProject Climbing page, as a future reference? --BlueCanoe (talk) 20:20, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Clean climbing

Somewhat credible arguments have been made (and for the moment laid to rest) for deleting this article. In the main, I disagreed.

I've been doing work on it lately and would be gratified if other editors commented and/or made further improvements. Now a bit weak on citations, both in number and mechanical method of their inclusion. Calamitybrook (talk) 02:00, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Are there enough articles on this subject to justify an Outline of climbing?

Here's a discussion about subject development you might find interesting.

The Transhumanist    23:46, 28 July 2009 (UTC)