Talk:Plymouth Rock

message: *so, how big is it? --86.129.6.182 (talk) 22:57, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Uninformative

message: I feel that the picture caption doesn't do the story of Plymouth Rock justice.  While many people are probably disappointed with the Plymouth Rock as a landmark I don't believe this should outweigh the fact that this was the proported landing place of the Pilgrims...a group of people who could be said to have had a profound impact on the development of American law, culture, history and identity.
69.174.212.154 07:05, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That part does need some work, it's all based on a single sound bite from a single source. The decent references I've found about disappointment really refer to pre-1920 incarnations of the monument.  I just looked at it a couple weeks ago with this article in mind, and it really doesn't seem that small or remote either, access is actually pretty good. I should take a camera over there some time and get a picture with people in it for scale. --iMeowbot~Meow 03:02, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Caption

message: This sentence seems wrong, but I have no evidence: "In 1991 an attempt was made by Col. Theophilus Cotton and the townspeople ..." -- should that read 1791, or are there still Theophilus's today?
Neil 17:18, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like vandalism to me. Reverted. AJD 18:15, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Theophilus

message: One of the important quibbles about the Plymouth Rock is whether the boulder so identified really was the first touchdown of the pilgrims.  Faunce was 94 when he was carried to the seashore in a sedan chair, when he supposedly pointed out the rock which his father had pointed out to him nearly 90 years earlier.  But Faunce's father hadn't been on the Mayflower but arrived approx 20 years afterward.  So a good deal depends on your estimate of the clarity of the sight and memory of an extremely old man who was depending on the details and truthfulness of a story that he had been told as a very little boy.
71.178.242.140 (talk) 00:36, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No one with any sense believes Plymouth Rock really was the first touchdown of the pilgrims. If our article suggests it is, it needs rewriting. - Nunh-huh 22:08, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Faunce

message: Via ticket:2010111110013194: was it not mention in William Bradford's 1623 thanksgiving proclamation? -- Jeandré, 2010-11-14t10:09z [donation needed]
:Yeah, it's mentioned in the document commonly described on the Internet as William Bradford's 1623 thanksgiving proclamation. But that was written in the 20th century, not in 1623.  It's not a contemporary reference; it's demonstrably spurious, and a laughably inept forgery. See Governor Bradford's Alleged Thanksgiving Proclamation, Thanksgiving on the Net: Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce- Nunh-huh 19:28, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: No contemporary references?

message: Might need another top-of-article redirect, or maybe a disambiguation page:  "Under the new plan, Orion vehicles would primarily serve as escape ships for space station crews, and they could play a role in future deep space exploration. Lockheed has seized upon the latter possibility, drawing up plans to send several linked-up Orion capsules to an asteroid — a potential manned mission called "Plymouth Rock."  Here is the link to the MSNBC article that mentions the project, quoted above.  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 17:27, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Plymouth Rock:  a 'Plymouth Rock' asteroid mission 

message: The lede is supposed to be a summary of referenced material in the body of the article. The first quote is from an unreliable 19th-century source that presents a mythologized version of the rock's role in history, with no context provided for the quote. For example, during what historical period was this myth taught as fact? The Bill Bryson quote is equally uninformed, as it presumes that the Pilgrims stepped off the Mayflower directly on to shore (they used a shallop). Finally, the two quotes juxtaposed to one another suggest that there is some sort of raging controversy. Zyxwv99 (talk) 03:49, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotes in the lede need to go 

message: The usage of  is under discussion, see talk:Plymouth -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 05:26, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: "{{noredirect|Plymouth}}"

message: The infobox implies that a boulder going by the name of Plymouth Rock was built in 1920 in the Classical style. At first glance this had me wondering if it was some subtle form of vandalism, since it didn't seem to make any sense. It was only when I scrolled to the bottom of the article that I found a picture of the structure housing the rock, and realised that this is what the text in the infobox was actually referring to. I think there's a problem here in that the infobox is trying to describe two different things at the same time - the rock itself and the building it lives in - and I'm not sure how best to fix it... but something needs to be done to make it clearer. 78.145.112.103 (talk) 04:35, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox is confusing 

message: It was vandalized earlier this year.  Shouldn't the article mention this? --172.58.44.153 (talk) 16:38, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: Why is this rated low- or mid-importance? Isn't it a major part of US history? --172.58.44.153 (talk) 16:43, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Importance ratings 

message: Whereas, despite its inclusion in this article, there is no view of the Rock in this photograph. Even the thing that supposedly is in it, is actually "behind some trees". Couldn't some kind soul who lives in the area just pop out and take a snap of the subject for inclusion in the article?
Nuttyskin (talk) 13:15, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Panorama