Talk:Winchester Mystery House

message: I am in the process of overhauling this page as I have found citation links that are broken, the citation does not say what is said on the page, or the citations were from unreliable sources. Dates have been found to be incorrect and information false according to reliable sources. I have also found some new information which will be added. I hope to be finished by the end of August. I look forward to feedback at that time.Hippopotenuse72 (talk) 19:13, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for this! There are still a lot of citations that are needed for this article if anyone wants to help. This page still needs quite a bit of cleanup and citations. MMiller324 (talk) 01:20, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: What an interesting rewrite...but more work than I anticipated. I have published and look forward to seeing people make it better by correcting my grammar etc. My next project is to rewrite Sarah Winchester's page. Hopefully it won't take me as long. Hippopotenuse72 (talk) 03:00, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving the page 

message: User Historybuff 5674 is reverting well-sourced edits and replacing them with a copy and paste of this website I am not sure how to request an admin. Please help. Thank you Hippopotenuse72 (talk) 00:30, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I have blocked that editor for 72 hours. Let me know if the disruption resumes, and I will pageblock them from this article. Cullen328 (talk) 00:39, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you!! Hippopotenuse72 (talk) 01:15, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit war 

message: There are many modern references to Winchester's apparent love of the number thirteen. The chandeliers hold thirteen candles, there are thirteen bathrooms, thirteen windows, thirteen ceiling panels, and thirteen coat hooks in the home. However these items were added to the home after her death and the first mention of her apparent love of thirteen was recorded in 1929, seven years after her death.
That's just not believable.  There's only 13 windows in this huge house? Valgrus Thunderaxe (talk) 07:49, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thirteen in one room. The owners of the home are cherry-picking in order to find hits to the number 13. Sgerbic (talk) 20:50, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: But is says thirteen in the house.  Valgrus Thunderaxe (talk) 06:15, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

text:   I had to laugh when I read this. - LuckyLouie (talk) 21:41, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: HAHA - That is funny. About the windows - obviously there are not only 13 windows in the entire house, but in some rooms. The rooms that the tour guides point out as having 13 windows, which of course means they have 13 windows. Someone could take a whack at improving that bit if they wanted to. Words can be funny things. Sgerbic (talk) 17:26, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  If there is an easily accessible source that clarifies the individual room window count vs. total house window count I would fix it. Found 'em and fixed it. - LuckyLouie (talk) 17:38, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number 13 

message: "It is sometimes claimed to be one of the “most haunted places in the world”, but there is no evidence to support this belief. Much of the lore regarding the Winchester House and its owner is fanciful, unverified, and often provably false."
Calling something a "most haunted place" could either mean it's literally haunted, or that there's enough folklore surrounding it to be culturally significant. If it's the latter, the Winchester House probably meets that criterion. If it's the former, then the scientific stance on that should be so obvious I'm not sure it bears repeating unless a specific claim is being made (e.g., that organ music can be heard in the house). It also implies that these claims were worth serious consideration by researchers, something that definitely would require a citation.
It's also just really vague. "Much of the lore?" How much and what counts as "lore?"
This is kind of trivial, I know, but it just struck me as odd and kind of humorous to be reminded that ghosts aren't real in an encyclopedia article about a house. 2603:7081:1603:A300:5D2A:5E39:2A96:6A62 (talk) 22:28, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Read WP:LEAD and then WP:LEADFOLLOWSBODY, then see Winchester_Mystery_House#Hauntings citation numbers 10,17, 27 and 28. - LuckyLouie (talk) 22:51, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  I tagged the "most haunted" section as "vague."