Talk:Tenaya Lake

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Chief Tenaya spoke Paiute. In Lafayette Bunnell's book "Discovery of the Yosemite and the Indian War of 1851 which led to that event" Bunnell writes that Chief Tenaya spoke a "Piute Jargon" and "Tenaya, the founder of the Piute colony of Ahwahni". Which would indicate that Chief Tenaya was a Paiute. The real meaning of Tenaya Lake would be "Water grass" named after a plant or "Water acorn". --Ixmnu2 (talk) 06:39, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Image Gallery[edit]

Per WP:IG, the image gallery in this article seems to be an indiscriminant collection of images. Accordingly, I moved the gallery to Commons, at Commons:Tenaya Lake. User:Ixmnu2 reverted my gallery deletion. I believe it should stay at Commons and not here. Comments? —hike395 (talk) 07:16, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

According to Wiki style manual, articles are of a multimedia nature, this includes relevant photos. The picture I added to the gallery section displayed the lake's condition during the winter. This gives the reader added insight to both the size and diverse recreational use the lake not displayed in previous images. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ixmnu2 (talk • --Ixmnu2 (talk) 08:33, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ok, that's an argument for keeping the winter image and transwiki-ing the rest (i.e., what I did for the latest edit). Is that an acceptable compromise? —hike395 (talk) 05:52, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for compromising. Let me propose this. Rather than keeping this a stub article. How about turning this into a full wiki article and intersperse the deleted photos along with the text.

Here's an outline of what I propose to be ADDED to whats preexisting and removing the image gallery altogether.

Tenaya outline

History including Chumash Indian period
Location and geography including 395 access and park access
Conservancy including projects by Yosemite conservancy
Recreation including fishing, hiking, photography and ice skating
External links including park service, fishing, hiking websites

--Ixmnu2 (talk) 02:09, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That is an excellent idea!! I would be happy to add some geology and ecology material. Check out the suggested article structure for articles about lakes —hike395 (talk) 03:45, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please by all means add sections on geology and ecology. Thanks for the tip on Lake structure. I'll post proposed text here before going live. If you have any hiking info and or suitable pictures of any kind by all means add them in.--Ixmnu2 (talk) 06:39, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You should be bold and just update the live page with new material. Don't worry about making mistakes --- either I or some other editor will clean up any errors, and you can see how it is done. —hike395 (talk) 07:13, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]