Talk:Archbald Pothole State Park

A fact from Archbald Pothole State Park appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 November 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the large pothole in Archbald Pothole State Park in Pennsylvania formed about 13,000 years ago in the Wisconsin glaciation, but was not discovered until 1884 by a coal miner?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/November.

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Usage of term "Pothole"[edit]

In UK English usage, a pothole is not a hole worn by flowing water (as stated in the article) but a vertical shaft extending from a cave formed by chemical erosion (e.g. Gaping Ghyll[1], many of whose surface entrances have the suffix "Pot" signifying "Pothole"). Fluvial erosional features of this magnitude are not found in the UK as there were no large ice-dammed lakes in the UK during the last glaciation; I assume (from the description in the text)that this feature arose during the draining of one of the lakes dammed by the Laurentide glaciers. I presume that the article reflects common US usage, but it may be as well to have the distinction made. --APRCooper 21:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Most in the United States think of a hole in the road / street / highway (especially after winter) when they hear pothole. I will try to update the article a bit to reflect these meanings. Thanks, Ruhrfisch 12:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That usage is also commonplace in the UK, but the term is not used of natural features of the kind described here, because we don't have any!--APRCooper 12:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

History update[edit]

I added more information on the 1997 and 2002 renovations, as well as the ongoing litter and "men seeking sex" problems. I found another source (the NY Times), incoroporated much more information from the AP article that appeared in the Amarillo TX newspaper, but dropped the Electric City "best place to catch an STD" award as a) it seemed to me to be questionable as a WP:RS and b) it did not actually say the men were looking for homosexual sex (which seemed to be what it was being used for as a ref). Given the POV possibilities here, it is probably best to discuss changes here before making them in the article itself. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 16:07, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The information is much more encyclopedic now, nice work. VerruckteDan (talk) 22:44, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added the local colloquialism "Archbald Butthole", which was the park's nickname after homosexuals starting seeking sexual encounters there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.127.101.109 (talk) 03:18, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for discussing this here, but unless you can provide a reference for the term from a reliable source, it does not belong in the article. See WP:V, Wikipedia's verifiability policy. The Amarillo newspaper does not list it and I did not find any references to it in reliable sources via Google. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:43, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]