Talk:Sandia Mountains

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I reverted (and moved) the campground sentence. A good deal of the range is not wilderness, so there are plenty of places where there could be developed campgrounds; the Forest Service chooses not to put one in. The version I removed implied that the whole range was wilderness. -- Spireguy 22:31, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging Sandia Crest

I originally created Sandia Crest separately, but I don't think there's much point in having it separate. So I propose merging it into here. -- Spireguy 18:44, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I think I agree...is there an official way to merge, or do you just copy the stuff over and delete it from here?--Skoch3 05:32, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Good work, Spireguy. I went to the old page and the "what links here." I started deleting / changing the links to "Sandia Crest," but then I got worried I was doing the wrong thing. Is the page "Sandia Crest" going to be deleted? Does that screw up the wikiproject?--Skoch3 04:06, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
The links to Sandia Crest should be changed to point to Sandia Mountains, i.e. [[Sandia Mountains|Sandia Crest]]. Actually I should have done that already; thanks for taking that on. The page Sandia Crest should definitely stay, as a redirect, since that would be a natural search term. -- Spireguy 19:57, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
I changed most of the links as you recommended. I didn't replace links on Talk: or User: pages, since maybe it makes sense to link to the redirect page. Here is the what links here page. The first two are automated or something, so I can't change them.--Skoch3 03:32, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] word "sandia" usage

I deleted the sentence "However in recent times the name Sandia is used only for the watermelon color of the mountains and not for the squash." (1.) A sandia is not a squash, it is a melon. (2.) All of the Spanish-English dictionaries that I consulted, Cassell's (1978), American Heritage (2001), and Velázquez (1973), indicated that "sandia" meant watermelon and none mentioned the color. Velázquez (1973) went so far as to specify watermelon Curcurbita citrullus, although watermelons are now classified as Citrullus lanatus, family Cucurbitaceae. Cobos, Rubén (2003) A Dictionary of New Mexico & Southern Colorado Spanish (2nd ed.) Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico ISBN 0890134529, does not mention the word "sandia". (3.) This sentence had been marked with a request for a citation for two weeks and none had been forthcoming.  --Bejnar (talk) 17:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC)