Talk:Geology of the Capitol Reef area

Geology of the Capitol Reef area is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on May 15, 2006.

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Date	Process	Result
March 25, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
April 1, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
May 30, 2015	Featured article review	Demoted

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Scope of article?

This is a great article, definitely worthy of being an FA. My only suggestion is one of scope --- why limit this to Capitol Reef? The geology you've described is applicable to the entire southwestern corner of Utah (from Capitol Reef, over to Moab, down to Canyonlands). The same sedimentary layers occurs throughout (my old friends, Moenkopi and Wingate!).

How about renaming the article something like Geology of southwestern Utah? -- hike395 13:40, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the compliment. :) However, this article only deals with formations as they exist in the immediate area of Capitol Reef National Park. Formations are not monolithic and different parts have different characteristics (the thickness of the Navajo Sandstone here, for example, is different than at Zion National Park while the mix of members of the Moenkopi Formation varies with location and the jointing of the Entrada Sandstone is different here than that at Goblin Valley State Park). Also, formations are discontinuous and by no means does this article describe the complete geologic history of the south east Utah (several formations are missing for that). I do plan to create largish articles for every formation in Utah that is represented in a national park/monument. But that will need to wait until after geology articles for every park and monument in Utah have been created. A geology of Utah or even geology of Southeast Utah article would not go into much detail on each of the many dozens of formations that are exposed in the state. It would be an overview of events. Articles such as this one will concern themselves with more explanation of individual formations as they are represented in their limited extent and, of course, articles on the formations will present a general description of the formation and how its characteristics are different in different areas and why. --mav 22:37, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos

A good article, and an enjoyable read. Thanks a lot. Brian Walsh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.201.233.13 (talk • contribs)

I'm glad you liked it. :) --mav 17:00, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I liked this article a lot, too. First-rate work. Thanks! Cheers, Pete Tillman 03:17, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FAR

This article has a lot of uncited text, and has fallen from FA standards since its 2006 promotion. Is anyone able to restore the FA to standard, to avoid a Featured article review? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:41, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]