Talk:Similkameen Falls

Deletion

A few days ago I came back from my Rock Creek camping trip. On the way there I stopped at Similkameen Falls. The falls themselves are nothing but a series of rapids but the gorge they are in is very impressive. Whoever named the falls obviously had had too much Captain Morgan's that day because, again, the falls are a series of rapids that drop about 25 feet over oh... 0.2 km. It's probably the swiftest point on the Similkameen River though. They should have called this location Similkameen Canyon or Similkameen Gorge or even Similkameen Rapids.

What is kind of cool about this location is the river is just bubbling along (its not really calm but it isn't raging either) then suddenly, it narrows to about 3 feet & funnels through a narrow, maybe 5 foot high chute before punchbowling powerfully into a deep pool which you can only imagine was formed by the constant force of the water being shot straight down with great force over many years.

Anyhow, I'm going to cut my rambling short & get down to the point. One of my problem's on Wikipedia is that I (feel the) need to describe everything in great detail, which often means I'm rambling way too much. And when it comes to waterfalls, just trust me; I can do a lot of rambling! See, even now I'm rambling! What is wrong with me!

Getting down to the point for real this time; the falls are nothing more than a series of rapids within a short but impressive canyon that drop about 25 feet over about 0.2 miles. I don't think rapids are generally significant enough to have Wikipedia articles on them so I am proposing that this page be deleted. Again, I really don’t know why this location was called a falls because it doesn’t resemble a waterfall at all. I was expecting a real waterfall when I came here so I was disappointed with the falls but the gorge the falls are in is quite impressive so in all I was satisfied.

I will discuss this matter with Skookum. Like I said in the previous paragraph, I don’t think a series of rapids that happened to be called a falls should have an article on Wikipedia about them. I can understand some rapids, such as the Bridge River Rapids of the Fraser River being on there as they are on a major river such as the Fraser & they have a fair bit of history surrounding them. The same cannot be said here! If you don’t believe me here, than go see the falls for yourself & you will see I’m not lying! Speaking of seeing the falls for yourself, if anyone wants some directions for the falls or would like me to give them a detailed report on the falls, send me a message on my talk page & I guarantee you will get your money’s worth of everything you need! Oh yeah & as many of you already know, I really enjoy taking & uploading pictures onto Wikipedia so one can imagine I surely couldn’t resist bringing the camera to the falls. And that is correct, I couldn’t resist & I did take a bunch of pictures however, since one can only view the falls from almost 250 above them standing at the top of a huge cliff that drops straight into a raging river, none of them really do justice. The fact that my pictures were not very good is one of the reasons why I want this article deleted; I was going to add some of the pictures that I took to the article to make it more appealing (a nice image can spice up a page real nicely sometimes). So unless you specifically ask me to, I won’t be uploading any pictures of the falls here. Don’t worry though, I took lots of pictures on the trip & several of them were taken specifically for Wikipedia use! AndrewEnns (talk) 16:08, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

If you want to discuss the now-officially-not-going-to-happen-anytime-soon-deletion of this page, please do it on my talk page. Cheers AndrewEnns (talk) 06:05, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Andrew, the article as you have edited it here appears to be almost entirely original, unverifiable research (which Wikipedia doesn't allow). Props for scoping out the falls; this is the first bit of good information I've seen on it but you'll likely have to pair down what you've got on here dramatically.Bryan Swan | World Waterfall Database (talk) 18:58, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Bryan, I've sent you an e-mail. Hopefully, what was said there does some of the talking. I'll see you on my talk page if you care to return the favor. AndrewEnns (talk) 02:13, 3 August 2009 (UTC)