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Recovery

It has been nearly twenty-five years. Could the state of the burned areas today be compared to the condition of the park just before 1988? Fotoguzzi (talk) 04:21, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

This could probably be expanded in the article...I'll look into it this weekend.MONGO 14:02, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Nice idea for an article. Eperotao (talk) 04:38, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

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Layout of references

I changed the {{reflist}} to {{reflist|30em}} but MONGO reverted it. I'd like to know what other people think the layout of the referencing should be. Anarchyte (work | talk) 14:00, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Looks squashed and reduces font too much. Not a helpful alteration so I reverted it.--MONGO 20:54, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Seems like editor's choice according to {{reflist}}, so a subjective choice among editors. I tend to prefer the multiple columns myself, it just seems less daunting to the eye than the single column display.--KingJeff1970 (talk) 17:21, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

I usually agree with articles of over 50 refs.--MONGO 04:41, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Firestorm

There is a technical definition of a firestorm, firestorm is not a vague slang term. Hot, wind-driven forest fires are almost never firestorms. Firestorms are intense fires where so much heat is rising that it sucks air in from all directions at ground level, like a thunderstorm. An example would be the firebombing of Dresden. Winds at ground level were so strong that trees were uprooted and fell towards the fire. In this article the term "firestorm" is used to describe intense fires which were driven by strong winds. These are NOT firestorms. For this reason the description of these fires as "firestorms" should be removed. Please read the Firestorm article before restoring any text describing the fires in Yellowstone as "firestorms". Senor Cuete (talk) 17:47, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

From the Firestorm article:

"the phenomenon's determining characteristic is a fire with its own storm-force winds from every point of the compass."

"Large wildfire conflagrations are distinct from firestorms if they have moving fire fronts which are driven by the ambient wind and do not develop their own wind system like true firestorms."

Senor Cuete (talk) 17:54, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Edit war, edit war. What a shame that user:MONGO refuses to follow Misplaced Pages policy and discuss this here. I can't actually make complete sense of what he says about this in his reason for reverting my edit but it appears that he's claiming that lots of references mention the "firestorms", but won't cite them. Also it appears that he hasn't read what I posted here or refuses to read about what a firestorm actually is. The article clearly describes wind-driven running crown fires, which are NOT firestorms. Seriously, how about a reliable source? Senor Cuete (talk) 02:05, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

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