Talk:Lost city

message: I don't think Pripyat is a lost city, as is was never 'lost,' it would rather be a ghost town.
Hans Wors (talk) 12:07, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Pripyat

message: Wasn't there an arabian city that got lost, as climate change and the shift of trade routes led to it being abandoned, and even its location being forgotton?
:The lost Arabian city was Ubar. Some orbital photographs taken from the shuttle showed ancient tracks that archaeologists home in on a site, which was shown to be Ubar in 1992. --PaulDrye
::Just to update in case anyone reads this, there's no certainty that Ubar was even a city. Doug Weller talk 13:51, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Ubar

message: I don't know who added the Hakim Bey quotation, but I hereby declare that I adore it, and shall defend its place in this entry to the death. Trachys 11:23, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hakim Bey

message: I removed Sabate, Italy because no such city has ever existed. --Gspinoza 17:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are several cities listed here that are fictional or of questionable existence.  Shouldn't Sabate be in that category? Ttmab7 22:00, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sabate?

message: Should Sodom and Gomorrah be on this list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.187.0.164 (talk • contribs)  (15:15, 26 July 2007) 
:I think it should. I personally think it meets the criterion. Ttmab7 22:00, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sodom and Gomorrah

message: I heard about a city in Australia that disappeared in the 1940's. It was abandoned by the townspeople and covered up completely in a sandstorm. Anyone heard of this?
Also, perhaps it should be divided up into cities that are lost, and cities that were lost. Just a thought.Ttmab7 21:56, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lost city?

message: Are there any criteria for getting on the list?  AFAIK eg. Ayutthaya and Sukhothai, while both former capitals, were never "lost". Jpatokal (talk) 17:08, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, unfortunately, the list criteria for this article is very lax.  Until it is rewritten, with good references, it will remain a catchall for truth, mythology, and pure fiction.  Alas... ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 19:36, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The term "lost city" is a colloquial term, not a scientific definition. It's really tied up with 19th century romantic European notions of discovery and trailblazing adventure than anything else. Whether a city is "lost" or not often depends on one's perspective. Angkor in Cambodia was never "lost" to the people who continued to live there - albeit in much smaller numbers than at the height of Cambodian civilization. The 19th century French who "discovered" it thought otherwise. Very few cities are ever completely lost to all human knowledge. Those that are tend to be either extremely ancient or extremely geographically isolated. It's far more common for "lost cities" to have been largely abandoned or gone into steep decline as a result of military, political or economic factors - but in most cases they're not actually  literally physically "lost". --Gene_poole (talk) 21:04, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: List criteria?

message: Wikipedia and everything else I can find says this is a country, not a city. Delete?--Dougweller (talk) 18:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Yamatai -- a country?

message: The list is a thin on Asian cities and isn't one immediate example that springs to mind Xanadu?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Themitfords (talk • contribs) 12:15, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Xanadu? 

message: Please have a look at this proposal for a new project (ExtinctSettlments) and add your votes and/or views. Folks at 137 (talk) 19:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Extinct settlements

message: The article states Cities may become lost when more than 50% of the living population no longer knows where the city in question is located.
This seems weird:
* Firstly it seems a ridiculously high bar. I doubt anything like 50% of the population knows where Dunedin, Erdenet, or Plovdiv are, yet none of these cities are "Lost".
* Secondly 50% of which population? Without qualification it suggests world population, but it's possible that some smaller range is intended. 
Kiore (talk) 09:06, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Answering my own question I found the source. It was an edit on 10 May by a new user User:67.171.228.50 (contribs), so I've reverted as the prior version made sense Kiore (talk) 19:55, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  How are cities lost? 

message: Some lost cities at known sites ...
One couldn't have put it "badder". The whole article is a mixup of two basically different categories, namely mythological places and extant, but most probably unrelated ruin sites.--80.141.186.208 (talk) 22:01, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mixup 

message: There is no Oceania section, the articles "Nan Madol" and lapita would be linkable to this page  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.40.60.92 (talk) 05:40, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oceania 

message: I rewrote most of the article to make clearer what a lost city is, how they become lost, and a brief section on rediscovery. I removed most of the references to cities that were destroyed or abandoned but never lost or forgotten. For example, Baghdad is definitely not a lost city and locations that were destroyed and rebuilt shouldn't count as lost either. We need more examples besides my quick and dirty ones. The list needs to be cleaned up to separate "ruined" from "lost". 74.124.169.215 (talk) 09:34, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Many "lost cities" listed in the article have never been lost. Like the capital cities of precolumbian America, or Chernobyl, and many others listed here. They were abandoned or destroyed, certainly, not lost. Also, the "Lost cities by continent" section should be in alphabetical order for NPOV reasons : Africa/Asia/Europe/North America/South America.--Munin75 (talk) 10:47, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

text: Please do. We have a ghost town article. Dougweller (talk) 17:26, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrote the article 

message: How about this place?
Simon de Danser (talk) 00:11, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Brittenburg]] 

message: It would probably be good to include Iram/Ubar which either are or are not the same and which either have or have not been found.  Scanlyze (talk) 21:00, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Iram may have been the name of a tribe., . Dougweller (talk) 10:08, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iram and Ubar 

message: La Ciudad Blanca is listed twice; once as "rediscovered" and once as "status unknown"~~  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.231.109.49 (talk) 08:46, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  La Ciudad Blanca 

message: Avaris and Pi-Ramesses are the same city really, Pi-Ramesses is just the northern extension of Avaris. Also, "Hyksos" is a rather vague collective term, and Avaris existed long before the arrival of these foreigners. ♆ CUSH ♆ 14:32, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avaris