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Talk:Cottingley fairies
Should the F be capped or not? The WP article is. The link in hoax is but the one on the "to do" page is not. Confuddled. 
postate 13:20, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
- I just followed the red link. I'm more than happy for those who know more wiki lore than I do to amend, or not, as necessary. Silver Sloth 13:23, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Ever since[edit]
Um, the sisters admitted the photos were a hoax back in 1980. Totnesmartin 20:54, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
- Oops, I thought it was 1981 and edited it to say that. By the way, I have a couple of old Arthur Clark debunking videotapes (the package sells them as pro-woo, but all the bits are anti-woo, the opposite of ghosthunters or whatever it's called), and one of the segments is on the Fairies in question. ħuman
21:12, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
- I have some stuff on them in some of my many paranormal books. I think *somewhere* I have a picture of the original illustrations that the girls cut out. Totnesmartin 11:53, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
"As with the Fox sisters..."[edit]
What on earth does that refer to? ħuman 01:41, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- I took it out - the reference to the Fox sisters only works if you know who they are, and I bet hardly anyone reading this article does. Totnesmartin 10:55, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- Would it make sense to have an article on them, too? I didn't recognize what the CFs were on the to-do list, and I own a video that talks about them! ħuman 21:04, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- But if you hadn't watched the video for years it'd be easy to forget. The fame of the Cottingley fairies rests mainly on Conan Doyle's involvement - they were even the main crux of a book of his, The Coming of the Fairies. Without him the whole thing would be a footnote in psychic/folklore history, and even WP wouldn't have an article on them. Talking of Wikipedia, Wikiproject paranormal had Cottingley Fairies as their collaboration of the month - for two years!
- Would it make sense to have an article on them, too? I didn't recognize what the CFs were on the to-do list, and I own a video that talks about them! ħuman
The Fox Sisters, for anyone interested, were the founders of Spiritualism. Maybe include them in that article, no real need to split one off. Totnesmartin 23:08, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, WP has a pretty long article on them. I think they deserve one here... I'll add them to the to-do list! ħuman 23:55, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Poem[edit]
Came across this - relevant? Anna Livia (talk) 18:18, 1 July 2019 (UTC)