Talk:Portmeirion

message: Some of the text in the main page appears to be lifted from the official Portmeirion website's descriptions.  The Portmeirion website claims (c) 2002.
:Perhaps you could flag up which text you feel this is? I can't see much of a similarity myself.Ghughesarch 10:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright status?

message: /* External links */ Old link contained few images of Portmeirion amongst thousands of unrelated images - replaced with more relevant gallery
I have removed a link to a search on a geo-image site because the information linked to was not specific to Portmeirion, indeed the vast majority of the many images were nothing to do with Portmeirion.
I have replaced it with a link to a set of Creative Commons images on Flickr, perhaps I can create a wiki media gallery of these images if that is possible? Alexander-Scott (talk) 14:34, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improved gallery 

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message: I think that calling this a tourist village is rather demeaning, and inaccurate. it is a brilliantly designed and executed hotel.Royalcourtier (talk) 06:29, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tourist village 

message: "On request from Williams-Ellis, Portmeirion was not identified on screen as the filming location until the credits of the final episode of the series, and indeed Williams-Ellis stated that the levy of an entrance fee was a deliberate ploy to prevent the village from being spoilt by overcrowding." These are two entirely separate matters, requiring separate paragraphs. They should not be lumped into one sentence.Royalcourtier (talk) 06:34, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anonymity and fees 

message: I’ve been reading Arthur Machen’s 1917 story, The Terror, recently.
The story is partly set in a village Machen calls Meirion, that’s in the far west of Wales, and is a ‘seaside town of some repute with holiday-makers.’
Speaking personally, I feel Machen was referring to Portmeirion: and wondered if someone could verify that, and add it to the article?
09:15, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Clearly not, given that construction of the village started in 1925. Nick Cooper (talk) 00:10, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, I’ll go with that, Nick.  But?  Why did Machen name a area in West Wales, ‘Meirion’?   I’m aware there were buildings there, before Portmeirion was started, but don’t know what they were called, or whether he knew of them.  Cuddy2977 (talk) 21:41, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

text: Might the article Merionethshire help  with some background? Feline Hymnic (talk) 21:57, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's also possible the name existed in some form; also there's the possibility it might have inspired William-Ellis, assuming Machen's village was fictional. 136.159.160.121 (talk) 21:00, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Terror 

message: I last visited Portmeirion in the fall of 1991, so that was a long time ago and some of this might no longer apply, but when I was there a vehicle used as a taxi for filming in The Prisoner was parked outside what was then the Prisoner shop. The shop may be gone, but might the vehicle still be there? Also, there was a pet cemetery in the woods of the village, which I don't think is mentioned in the article. Anecdotally I recall the village was also within "sonic boom range" of an air base; I recall walking a wooded path near that cemetary and then getting the life startled out of me after some jet fighter broke the sound barrier nearby. 136.159.160.121 (talk) 21:00, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No idea about the 'taxi', but the dog cemetery is in a wooded area called "Y Gwyllt" (The Wild) which I thought I understood was connected to (what is now) the Portmeirion Hotel. It would certainly make sense to mention this in the article. There's also a large private beach accessed from the village. Sionk (talk) 14:46, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional information