Talk:America's Stonehenge

message: anyone got a picture of this? i would like to see it :) Steeev 14:10, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually I've got some (it's really underwhelming), maybe a few days to get them up. Stan 16:18, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text:  Cool! :) Steeev 16:20, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures?

message: I was looking for information on Mystery Hill, NC and ended up redirected here instead. How odd.--68.210.255.48 16:20, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's the old name of this place. I've turned Mystery Hill into a disambiguation page - care to create an article on the NC site? - DavidWBrooks 16:53, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "America's Stonehenge" is a really, really idiotic name - it sounds exactly like the type of "roadside oddity" they are trying to distance themselves from. Mystery Hill or just make something up. I really want to believe this is for real in some way, but Pattee's Cave would even be better than some oblique reference to an archeological site in England that nobody even understands. Yeah, you know, every summer on the longest day we all stand on 3rd St and look down Western toward the setting sun, which is right in line with the center of the street, and the bell towers of two churches which frame the orb ring out in unison. It's like so ritual, just like the beer we're all guzzling, it's a downright religious experience.76.105.136.241 (talk) 07:07, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mystery Hill? 

message: After seeing the same ridiculous rewrite get reverted six or eight times in the last few days, from several different anon IPs, I have semi-protected this page (only registered users can edit it). I have to find out how to put the box it, though ... - DavidWBrooks (talk) 19:31, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. ClovisPt (talk) 20:43, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Darned if I can find instructions about what template to put on the article, though. Do you know? - DavidWBrooks (talk) 20:57, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No template for a short semi, those blocked can use the template  to request an edit. Thanks for doing that. I was tempted even though I was involved (I guess I could have put up a note on ANI or AN asking for a review of it). Dougweller (talk) 21:06, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protect 

message: ARRRRGHHH!  New York Times ran an article on the site on December 11.  Quoted the Stone family, brought in a professor of astronomy, and a mystery writer, all in support of pre-Columbus European input. No mention of 20th century rework of colonial stone work. David notMD (talk) 21:17, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it was an incredibly lame freelancer piece - and it was run without the ability to add comments, alas! - DavidWBrooks (talk) 21:28, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Who is Alan Hill? New Hampshire Technical Institute is a 2 year college, no astronomy department and I can't find an Alan Hill either. Dougweller (talk) 22:18, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

text: That was a terrible article.  To be fair, it's in the travel section, which has always been the Times' weakest area journalistically.  I find their science section to be among the most accurate and well written sources of archaeological articles aimed at the general public.  Don't know if this would be worth anyone's time, but is there a procedure for contacting the paper and asking for clarification or retraction of certain points in an article?  Doug's comment regarding the mysterious Alan Hill suggest to we might actually have a case.  Regards, ClovisPt (talk) 01:05, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm about to write a nice, short, calm, pleasant letter to the editor.
 - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:03, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Found Alan Hill. In 2003 he gave a talk at the NHTI: "Alan Hill, Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, NHTI Prof. Hill will discuss the mysteries behind America's Stonehenge, the stone structures on a hill top in North Salem, NH.Also, he will examine the many stone chambers found throughout the Northeast U.S., and the Canadian Maritime Provinces and examine their similarity to those found throughout Europe." Dougweller (talk) 20:05, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 12/11/09 N.Y. Times article

message: The sentence "It is usually attributed to a mixture of land-use practices of local farmers in the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as construction of structures by owner William Goodwin in the 1930s." -- this should have a citation. Otherwise the sentence itself violates WP:NPOV. To stand it requires support from Wikipedia:RS. I say this because of the commentary above in this discussion section. It should be fairly easy to provide sources for this sentence if, in fact, it is "usually attributed" as it says. I will return in a few weeks or so -- if the sentence has no citation at that point I will delete it. This provides plenty of time for the sentence to be justified. SunSw0rd (talk) 14:59, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  It Is Usually Attributed... 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This site has zero connection to Stonehenge except for an advertising-gimmick renaming. It should not be, for example, part of the Stonehenge template, any more than if I named my mattress storeroom Sleephenge! - DavidWBrooks (talk) 19:17, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: - I have restored the infobox as it mentions America's Stonehenge in the "Replicas and derivatives" section and America's Stonehenge is also mentioned in the article Stonehenge replicas and derivatives in the "Comparable archaeological sites" section - so whether you like the association or not, it's there - cheers - Epinoia (talk) 19:32, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it shouldn't, as this pleasant spot is neither a replica - it's not a henge, it's not made of standing stones - nor is it derivative in the sense of being a prehistoric astronomical construction. It's "Mystery Hill" rebranded for attention, exactly of the sort that the infobox gives it. I don't know how to edit an infobox (life is short!) or I'd remove it from the "replicas and derivates" section, where it does not belong. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:48, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  not part of Stonehenge on wikipedia