Talk:MIT Mystery Hunt

message: The name "IAP Mystery Hunt" is neither the most useful, nor the most common, name for this hunt.
USEFUL: "IAP" is a term that's unknown to people outside the MIT community, while "MIT" is familiar throughout the world.  If someone wants to get information about this hunt, they're more likely to find it under the name "MIT Mystery Hunt".
COMMON: In my experience, this hunt is more commonly called the "MIT Mystery Hunt".  The "MIT Mystery Hunt" is also the "official" name, as it's been listed for years at the top of the main page of the hunt's web site.
SUGGESTION: Rename this Wikipedia entry to "MIT Mystery Hunt" and make "IAP Mystery Hunt" point to that entry.
Eric-Albert 19:48, 2005 Oct 19 (EST)
:Done. :) DenisMoskowitz 16:13, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct Name for the Hunt? 

message: The most recent rewrite and subsequent corrections have remained largely stable for almost a week. Is this an article that the rest of you would like to parade around on the DYK/GA/FA circuit someday or just leave here in its quiet corner of wikipedia? What things need to be addressed and improved? With what other articles can we crosslink? Madcoverboy 03:44, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't feel any particular need to push this article into some sort of contest.  It's informative about its subject and provides links for interested readers to learn more.  I'm not opposed to improvements but I don't think it's particularly broken. DenisMoskowitz 17:29, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Same thoughts here. I don't really understand what the "good article" distinction is for. I'm happy to just help maintain this article, and if I see a way I can improve it, to do so. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ  20:43, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Now what?

message: I don't see what the benefit is of listing the names of the writing teams of each of the past Hunts. They're basically meaningless to anyone who's not already familiar with who the Mystery Hunt teams are, and in some cases they're actually potentially misleading (the Palindrome team that wrote the 2001 Hunt did not have the same membership as the Palindrome team that wrote the 2008 Hunt, for instance). AJD (talk) 19:30, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems the closest we can come to shorthand attribution for the hunt and theme.  The two groups of Palindrome writers were not the same, but it was the same team -- in the sense that a sports team retains a certain identity even if it loses or trades its star players. It wasn't a new team that happened to share a name with an older one (in that case, disambiguation would be in order). – SJ + 10:04, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's reasonable, but the way it's done now still loses data: for example, if a goal is to indicate when the same team wrote multiple Hunts, the list doesn't note that the 2004 and 2014 Hunts were written by the same team. And: was the 2011 Hunt written by the same team that wrote the 2006 Hunt, or was the 2015 Hunt? AJD (talk) 06:13, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree that this article would be improved by the deletion of info about team names Rainjacket (talk)   — Preceding undated comment added 01:03, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing team names? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article uses words like "puzzlehunt" and "runaround" that either are not words (puzzlehunt) or are used entirely differently from a word's usual meanings (runaround). (With the word "runaround" never defined.)
This is completely inappropriate for an encyclopedia, where the goal is clarity.108.245.209.39 (talk) 20:44, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: "Puzzlehunt" has its own article on Wikipedia, so I disagree there.  I agree that "runaround" could use a brief explanation, though I think the word itself should be retained, since that is the official term for the final puzzle of the hunt.  Qaqaq (talk) 18:13, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please avoid using words that are not words. 

message: The emoji vandalism filter is getting in the way of me making this change. 
See https://thirdwest.scripts.mit.edu:444/~thirdwest/wiki/index.php?title=Puzzles  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cursuviam (talk • contribs) 18:37, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The name is "✈✈✈Galactic Trendsetters✈✈✈" not "Galactic Trendsetters"