Talk:Prospect Peak (Park County, Wyoming)

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The name changes were surely not made for "unknown reasons" so much as for reasons not known to the author of the source or the editor of the article. If the source claims that nobody today knows those reasons, fine. But it is rather unlikely to be the case that the people who made the changes did not know why they ere doing so. Silver starfish (talk) 14:27, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In this case "unknown reasons" is the learned opinion of the author of a reliable secondary source--Whittlesey, the Yellowstone Park historian--and it is specifically stated so in the source. Although removing the words from the article would not harm it, the logic that Hague and Norris must of had a reason for their names, even though probably true, isn't supported by any sources and would be OR if the article stated it that way. For whatever reasons they chose the names they did, there is no historical evidence as to what those reasons were. Thus unknown reasons, as stated by Whittlesey is valid and supported by a reliable secondary source.--Mike Cline (talk) 14:47, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is scarcely "original research" to try and work out what Whittlesey meant by what he wrote and then express it as clearly as possible. Silver starfish (talk) 21:12, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]