Talk:Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

History

RE HISTORY of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania:

The text User:H2eddsf3 entered was copied+pasted from the following website:

• http://www.visitjimthorpe.com/new/history.htm

Which was intern taken from:

• http://www.enter.net/

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• "Copyright © 1998-2003 MRG Artistic All rights Reserved."

Contributions to Wikipedia need to be original material. One can NOT just copy+paste from other websites, or other material. Unless you are the origianl author of said material.

WikiDon 09:02, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Every so often there is a move to change the name back to Mauch Chunk. He had no connection to the town, never visited it in life. Town residents complained that while they were promised tourism & a spoorting goods factory if they gave Thorpe a tomb "All we got was a dead indian".Saxophobia 08:42, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

The handprint on the jail cell wall that won't go away

Anyone have information about the jail located here and the relationship to the legend of one of the Molly Maguires handprint proclaiming his innocence on the jail wall? This hand print that won't go away some 100 years later before he was executed? Still there today.

Might be an excellent addition, Found it: The Old Jail/ The Handprint of Alexander Campbell that never goes away, June 21, 1877

Put it into extrnal links, What an eerie story!Scott 03:22, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Temp. page out of control

Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania/Temp needs to be merged here. We now have two independent articles about this location, because this temp. page was never deleted. --Czj 02:31, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

POV in recreation section.

This section reads very POV to me. Just thought I should bring it to someone's attention.66.24.253.111 04:52, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Elevation

An IP recently changed the elevation data, which I changed back (my natural reaction to an unsourced change of established data). When I went to find a reference, I ended up finding things ranging from 500' to 1300'. The river elevation appears to be about 120' above sea level, which may put town hall not much higher. Town hall is usually the official reference point. Can anyone find something conclusive that lists both an elevation and defines the reference point? That latter part is important for these mountain towns. --Bossi (talk • gallery • contrib) 17:45, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

When I added the elevation to the Geobox, I used the USGS's online database. Jim Thorpe's entry is here. I'm adding the reference to the article. VerruckteDan 17:59, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

History Again

I reverted an edit where the entire wikipedia article on Jim Thorpe (athlete) was copied in. I think simply linking to this page is enough. Thoughts from others? -- Skabat169 (talk) 18:01, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

This is about the town; not the athlete. A link suffices. It cracks me up, though, that the user literally copied it all... even the [edit] buttons. --Bossi (talk • gallery • contrib) 01:56, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Mauch Chunk

Can the etymology of "Mauch Chunk" be given in this article? Badagnani (talk) 08:54, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Geography Picture Needs New Caption

The words which are underneath the picture for the Geography section do not add up to sentences. --174.21.174.196 (talk) 05:19, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Neither does a whole lot of § History, and probably more of the article. I'm trying to clean it up now. ... See section just below. Done. --Thnidu (talk) 05:04, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Gibberish, garble, unparseable

I am trying to make sense of §History enough to clean it up and make it readable, but some parts are just impossible... and imparseable, like this non-sentence:

Mauch Chunk on a flat at the mouth of a right bank tributary of the Lehigh River at the foot of Mount Pisgah in 1818 when Lehigh Coal Mining Company was taken over by a new management team with a plan and an eye for high tech of the day.

So what about Mauch Chunk? This sentence no verb! I'm inserting "is" and taking out everything after "Pisgah".

... And similarly through the rest of the article. To discuss this with me, please {{Ping}} me. --Thnidu (talk) 05:02, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

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