Talk:Upper and Lower Table Rock

Upper and Lower Table Rock is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on January 7, 2016.

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Date	Process	Result
September 1, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed
October 5, 2009	Peer review	Reviewed
November 10, 2009	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 5, 2009. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that when the Rogue River eroded andesitic lava in the Rogue Valley, it created the Upper and Lower Table Rock* geologic formations?*
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Upper and Lower Table Rock --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:04, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox type

Sorry to swoop in the day that this article is on the Main Page, but the previous infobox type (Geobox / protected area) seemed quite wrong to me. This article is not about a single protected area --- The Nature Conservancy owns part of it, the BLM runs another part. Instead, it seems that this article is about two volcanic plateaus, with similar geological origin, that happen to be (partially?) protected. {{Infobox mountain range}} seems to be a much more natural infobox, including elevation and geology (rather than visitation).

I was WP:BOLD and substituted (what I consider to be) a better infobox. I bet we won't reach consensus today: we could ask for more opinions at both WP:WikiProject Mountains and WP:WikiProject Protected Areas.

Thanks for listening! —hike395 (talk) 09:41, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Questionable Lede Statement

Don't want to touch the article while it is featured, but this is what is in the lede:

The Takelma tribe of Native Americans inhabited the Table Rocks for at least 15,000 years prior to European American settlement.

This is what is in the BLM webpage that is apparently the source:

It is estimated that people have lived in the Rogue River Valley for at least 15,000 years. This estimate is based on archaeological evidence of distinctive dart and projectile points that date to about that time, called Clovis points.

The source only claims evidence that Native Americans were in the RR Valley, not necessarily at Table Rocks, 15,000 years ago. It does not identify the tribe that left the Clovis arrowheads. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grubbiv (talk • contribs) 14:08, 7 January 2016

Indeed, and clearly put. I wouldn't call it questionable. I would call it clearly wrong. Rotcaeroib (talk) 14:55, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reworded the Takelma tribe bit. Vsmith (talk) 15:20, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mesa not a plateau

The upper and lower table rocks are free standing so they are mesas not plateaus. A plateau is a flat pennisula extension off of a mountain. A mesa is wider than it is tall but free standing. A butte is taller than it is wide and free standing. All three have flat tops. 2600:100F:B1B0:B016:9D2C:1F0D:CE46:F070 (talk) 19:43, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]