# Talk:Hall of Records

I just made a bad link here from Registrar.  "Hall of records" is a generic term; there thousands of them.  This is like linking Main Street to Main Street (novel).  — Randall Bart 01:07, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Concur, I've put a notice up on the Great Sphynx talk page suggesting people there with appropriate expertise come over to fix this article.Simonm223 (talk) 13:45, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Suggest retitling article to the above asap.Rep07 (talk) 20:00, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

unnecessary pseudoscience woo.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Idxcue (talk • contribs) 04:02, 17 September 2011 (UTC) 
But isn't that how most people know about the Hall of Records? Didn't he popularize the concept? Why wouldn't that be notable if this article exists? --70.68.121.31 (talk) 19:25, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/egipto/esp_esfinge_1c.htm
'In a series of expeditions between 1991 and 1993 led by John Anthony West'  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.15.74.160 (talk) 06:27, 2 March 2014 (UTC) 

I would argue that the subject as presented here does not add up to a myth, but merely a hoax. TooManyFingers (talk) 03:00, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

The article doesn't call it a myth, despite the long-ago suggestion that it should. But it's not clear that it qualifies as a hoax, as there isn't a clear indication that the idea was invented to deliberately deceive people. The key question is what the reliable sources call it. There aren't a lot of reliable sources in this case, unfortunately, but the few that there are don't call it a hoax or a myth. A. Parrot (talk) 05:49, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

I've been improving the article, and I'm not sure which of the external links are worthwhile under the guideline. I'm removing them, at least temporarily, and copying them here:

NOVA Online/Pyramids/Read Others' Responses #2
This page contains responses from Hawass and Lehner, who are recognized authorities, so it's not bad (and rather remarkable that it's still up after all these years). But I'm not sure how much it adds, now that I've given a more thorough timeline of the investigations on the plateau.
The Search for Hidden Chambers On the Giza Plateau, Part III: The Hall of Records by Alan Winston
Touregypt isn't generally considered reliable, although it gets linked a lot on WP because it compiles a lot of information from other sources (in this case, mostly the same ones I've cited in the article).
The Shaft, The Subway & The Causeway / 4
This page is from somebody's personal website, which isn't allowed by the guideline. The page adds some interesting details about the suspicious overlap between Randall-Stevens' writings and those of Lewis, but it's not significant enough to be worth defying the guideline.
Homepage of the late Edgar Cayce
The Cayce (ARE) site encompasses much more than Cayce's claims about the Hall of Records and isn't especially useful. The most relevant aspects of the site are their database of Cayce's readings (which is paywalled) and their chronological list of the readings (which I've already linked as a source).
Waseda University Egyptian Expedition: The Pyramids Survey of Giza Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
This page only discusses Waseda University's investigations at Giza in general terms, not anything directly related to the Hall of Records.
If anyone wants to discuss re-adding these links, feel free to do so below. A. Parrot (talk) 05:41, 4 February 2024 (UTC)