Talk:Vatican Apostolic Archive

message: Having read the two articles recenlty added as a see also section, I fail to see the relevance either has on readers of this article. Gentgeen 03:09, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For now, I've deleted the See Also section and instead, I've have incorporated the links to Carlo Ginzburg and the Inquisition into the External links section. This should clarify their relationship to the article. Delta x 04:20, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New See Also section 

message: Reading the article it bothered me that some passages, particularly in the jewish conspiracy theories  section, showed a clear point of view, and at the very least lacked sources. A quick look at the history showed they were recent additions by 192.217.249.42. I don't know particularly much about the subject, but I suggest that an editor involved with the page take a look at this. AoS1014 20:15, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: Should this article really be a part of the Secrecy category?  Like, the name of the archives is more properly translated as "Private Archives," not "Secret Archives."  Plus, most of the archives are open to anyone who has a pass, which is essentially a library card.  There really isn't much that's secret about the archives.  True, there are sections from some pontificates which can't be released until enough time has passed, but any institution has these time-release documents, and the Vatican's policy is comparatively pretty lenient.  There just doesn't seem to be anything that's really "secret."  I propose that it be removed from the Category.  Just my two cents.  Anyone have thoughts about this?  Any opinions are welcome, even if they don't agree with mine.  J.J. Bustamante 10:52, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Category: Secrecy

message: In the section "Extent", I found this sentence: "Since that time, the documentation includes items such as Henry VIII of England's request for a marriage annulment, and letters from Michelangelo, or files on Jaime Bleda."  Since the last of those redlinks, I wondered who this person was and why they were in that list.  A little investigation indicates that Bleda came about a century after the later of the two others (thus not making much of a point about how far back the documents go), is not particularly notable (hence a redlink instead of an article) and was added as the sole edit of anon  with the highly POV descriptor "Catholic precursor of Adolf Eichmann."  Accordingly I'm cutting it. -- 65.78.13.238 (talk) 01:14, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jaime Bleda 

message: Does anyone think it might be of interest to note that the archives have a website? Here is the link: http://asv.vatican.va/home_en.htm
Sephiroth storm (talk) 06:08, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. It's at the top of External links. --Wetman (talk) 06:17, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archives Online? 

message: There are many myths and conspiracy theories associated to the Archives, among others that the Vatican is hiding gnostic-like secrets about Christ, that artifacts about the Holocaust or ancient Jerusalem are kept there and that there is a collection of filth tucked in store too. It would not be a bad idea to mention those, along with accurate sources of course. ADM (talk) 04:19, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, one interesting item I have heard, ( I sincerely hope it's a myth ), is that Vatican's entrails contain world's biggest collection of pornography. Please tell me it's a lie.  Jon Ascton  (talk) 22:06, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Myths and conspiracy theories

message: A person deleted my "addition of Napoleon Bonaparte stealing the archives." I'd like to know if it's fact or fiction.. did it happen? http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-06-24-vatican24_CV_N.htm
"Founded in the 1600s by Pope Paul V, sacked by Napoleon, returned, moved and open only to scholars since the 1880s, the Vatican Secret Archives, the Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum, serve as repository for the diplomatic records of pontiffs. Records stretch back to at least the 800s; the parchment Liber Diurnus, a circa-eighth-century codex containing legal language for consecrating monasteries and addressing dignitaries, is the oldest record in the archive."
Twillisjr (talk) 00:41, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: True about Napoleon and his plan to bring all the archives of his empire together in Paris.  See University of Michigan project.  Esoglou (talk) 08:22, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  NAPOLEON STEALS ARCHIVE: FACT OR FICTION?? 

message: I am not a native English speaker. But nonetheless, I would like to point out that I have never heard or read this expression anywhere. Googling "primal encumbency" only yields quotes of this article.
I assume the phrase is meant to say that the Pope is incumbent for life? Could someone confirm that this is actually an existing use of "primal"? I cannot find it in any dictionary. 
If it isn't, it should be rewritten as "lifelong incumbency" or something of the sort.
--84.119.42.103 (talk) 14:05, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "primal incumbency" 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hey all, 
It seems like some of the categories (Opening of the archives, 2012 exhibition, and parts of the introductory paragraph) might serve users better if they were under a History section, as is standard for many articles of this type. I'm compiling some sources to make it a little more extensive currently, but I just wanted to see if there were any objections before forging ahead.
Bjashaw (talk) 15:56, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding History section 

message: It doesn't really seem like this section is all that useful for users of the article. Furthermore, it's a list that's essentially been copied and pasted from the VSA's website. I've deleted the section.
Bjashaw (talk) 15:56, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleting section "Cardinal Archivists of the Vatican Secret Archives"

message: Hey all, I've removed most of the irrelevant and non-functional links at the end of the article. Do y'all think that there's enough grounds to remove the flag? Bjashaw (talk) 06:19, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing external links cleanup flag 

message: Just a note that someone has broken out In Codice Ratio in to a separate article, which I came across in the new pages feed. No idea if it's an a appropriate fork.--- Possibly (talk) 01:41, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[In Codice Ratio]]