<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>Lee Whittlesey recently produced an NPS document bearing on the naming of thermal features, and gaining "official" status for names. In this document, GOSA, some of GOSA's individual "members" and my book are noted as authoritative names reference sources. This led me to query Lee about the status of names that have already appeared in my book, and in the upcoming new edition. Here is my latest offering on the matter.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> In a message dated 9/16/2004 2:30:54 PM Mountain Daylight Time, Lee_Whittlesey@nps.gov writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>The harder question, as<BR>always, is: when does a name leave the quotation-mark stage and enter the<BR>"accepted" category? This has never been an easy question to answer, but my<BR>answer is---whenever the name is adequately "entrenched" in literature and<BR>usage (it is my opinion that you need BOTH to move the name into the<BR>"accepted" category).</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Lee:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I wish you could give a distinct definition to "entrenched," but I must take it that if it has appeared on any reasonably consistent basis __ including as published in places such as my book and/or The GOSA Transactions and/or in any USGS-NPS document __ and certainly if it has gotten a reasonable useage verbally and/or in Internet e-mail postings, then it is entrenched.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You adequately state that a simple numerical designation is a poor substitute for a valid name. My UNNG designations are really just "fanciful" numbers, and I feel my book would be better by eliminating as many as possible.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So, Lee, what do you think of the following? Later -- when the rewritten draft is done, which will not be until some time after my return to California -- I'll go through the book, extracting _every_ UNNG that is accompanied by a name and, for those where I think it reasonable, I will make a personal decision and eliminate the UNNG (perhaps by using red strikethrough font) while leaving the name within quote marks. I will also include those geysers where I have already (previously or now) already eliminated the UNNG but have left the name within quote marks.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>And then, Lee, perhaps you could further indicate which of those within-quotes names could have the quote marks removed.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Doing all this will be quite a job-extra, but I do want things to be "right."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></BODY></HTML>