Talk:Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

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[edit] History

RE HISTORY of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania:

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

Which was intern taken from:

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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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)