Talk:Flannan Isles

message: I'm going to delete the entire mystery section of the article and write another. As is, the section actually champions, albeit implicitly, a supernatural interpretation of the event. While the occurrence is certainly spooky, most agree that the men were probably simply swept out to sea by a large wave.
Havardj, 14:58 19 July 2006 (UTC)
:I agree. --JBellis 06:55, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All three men at the same time??  Unlikely, at best.  Likewise, the notion of spirits or UFOs is not ludicrous, in and of themselves, given the sheer volume of strange events reported throughout history; what is ludicrous here is including reference to them, save only as offered explanations, without any legitimate connection shown. --Chr.K. 17:35, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

text: I think it is reasonable that the text about the mystery should not focus on explaining it scientifically/rationally, it should focus on explaining what myths have been circling in media/folklore. Titling it as a "mystery" kind of makes it clear that it is not an explanation about what really happened, but an explanation what is populary believed to have happened.--RipperDoc 07:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have completed a re-write of the main body of the article the excluding the mystery section. I intend to come back later and have a go at that too as well as tweaking the rest. The protestations of my old friend Fear Liath notwithstanding I would hope to take a less senational approach than the current version re the 'mystery'. Ben MacDui (Talk) 19:12, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: completely unencyclopedic and ridiculous

message: Surely there's no logic in an island being in a people category.  If you were to include places where people have died but their bodies never found/identified it would be a very long list - many battles esp at sea, WWII concentration camps, , gulags, Horoshima, and bombed cites such as Hamburg.  --JBellis 19:13, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disappeared people 

message: Certainly meets GA criteria. Passed. Da54 14:26, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA 

message: I have amended this recent edit for two reasons. Firstly the prior edit contained a minor non sequitour. There may be evidence that this work of fiction caused people to believe the Flannans were actually visited by extra-terrestrials, but the source doesn't say that. It indicates that the mystery was the inspiration for the fictional drama, not that the drama provides an explanation of the mystery. Secondly web citations should have a minimum of a title, publisher and access date. There are a couple of others that need fixing I will attend to asap. Ben MacDuiTalk/Walk 17:42, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Horror of Fang Rock 

message: Can someone explain how/why "Railway Tracks" are listed amongst the expenses for building the lighthouse, and again amongst the storm damage? What exactly was someone doing building a railway in this location, and what was its scope/extent? 78.146.89.214 (talk) 17:58, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's explained here: http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/10/orcadian_railways.htm "The Northern Lighthouse Commissioners have their service depot in Stromness and use a little standard gauge track for moving buoys on a trolley. They also have a 2ft 6in system which appears to have been laid when the base was installed in the 1890‘s. This system serves their own pier and includes several oddities in the way of points and loops. When we were present a tame otter patrolled the system! The Commissioners have installed track of the same gauge at some of their lighthouses, where a cable hauled bogie is used to land stores. The only one I have visited is on Sules Skerry, one of a pair of islands about 38 miles west of the Orkney group. A similar system, including a point, exists on the Flannan Isles off the west coast of the Hebrides, and I have heard that there is one on Muckle Flugga, the penultimate northerly rock in Great Britain." Ghughesarch (talk) 20:31, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Railway Tracks?

message: Would it not be better to create an article for the Flannan Isles Mystery, or disappearance, whatever its colloquial term, as it appears to have more coverage on the article than the actual islands. I think this disappearance is well known and famous enough to merit its own article, along with Valentich and Flight 19.PhilOak (talk) 22:20, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've merged the mystery content into Flannan Isles Lighthouse because that is a very short article, and the content is better suited there as the location of the incident, rather than here where it is longer than the rest of the article.  Sandstein  12:05, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Flannan Isles mystery article proposal

message: If anyone doing any research on the subject is reading this I would like to suggest considering the known rouge wave phenomenon named "three sisters" as the cause, where three rogue waves strike in close succession. Facts that point out to that being the case: 2 men were out in raincoats doing some work (securing something?) the third rushed out without his due to an emergency and they all vanished: when one of the earlier waves of the three swept the two people outside off the cliff (or left them barely clinging to a bent rail or something) the third one attracted by the huge onrush of water that would be hard to miss, rushed to their aid only to be himself swept by one of the latter ones. It is possible that a sole wave is responsible if some other emergency forced the third man out (wind throwing one of the two off balance or so) - only to meet the sudden single ill-timed wave that swept them all at once, but I consider the three sisters more likely.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.110.196.83 (talk) 18:03, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Three sisters" 

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