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This article is pretty much plagiarized from a History Channel documentary. It needs to meet a higher standard. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.253.142.36 ( talk • contribs)
On June 11, 2009, CBC Radio's "The Current" broadcast a 10 minute story about Fordlandia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.50.52.237 ( talk) 13:24, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Is this name correct? Shouldn't it be "Fordlandia" ? As it was founded by Henry Ford, and the Ford Motor Company, both from the United States, it would seem that there shouldn't be any accents. It failed while still owned by the US Ford Company. -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 10:55, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
I second that. 1) How did Ford himself write it? - probably without the funny marks. 2) This is an English encyclopedia. 108.7.8.93 ( talk) 23:17, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
The article says Fordlandia is abandoned, yet the Google Maps arial photos, as well as the photos on the ground, show fresh paint, trimmed lawns, maintained roads, rows of recently-planted crops or trees, and contemporary vehicles. It is not entirely abandoned. Philgoetz ( talk) 23:32, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
I fixed it. It was never completely abandoned since the 20s, a very few people used to live there, now there's some more. I've fixed it.
RodrigoCruzatti (
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The body of this article is copied totally verbatim from reference #2. It's cut off in the middle and makes little sense because it's taken out of context. Somebody needs to completely redo or delete this article. 98.175.133.60 ( talk) 18:02, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: move Fordlandia to Fordlandia (album) and redirect Fordlandia to here. There's firm consensus that this is the primary topic, but no consensus on whether the circumflex should be dropped from the name. ( non-admin closure) Alakzi ( talk) 23:05, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
– Fordlandia was an ill-fated boondoggle of Henry Ford, a well-known American industrialist who seemed to pay little attention to his critics and his diacritics. A few cited sources do seem to use the unusual "â" when discussing his project, but most do not – indeed, many sources don't even seem to mention the possibility of a diacritic ( a documentary film about the place, National Public Radio, Failure Magazine, a book on the subject, the Henry Ford Museum, the Michigan Historical Center, etc.). I don't know the full story of the "â", but it does not seem to be used by most reliable sources. Regardless of all that, the primary topic for Fordlandia is certainly not the obscure 2008 sixth studio album by an Icelandic composer of minimalist neoclassical electronic drone music – and the article for the album acknowledges this by talking more about the project by Henry Ford than about the project by the composer who created the album. This is true regardless of the apparent contrary opinion from the now-site-banned Kauffner, who moved the article to its current name without discussion on 19 October 2011. — BarrelProof ( talk) 22:32, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Well, as everyone knows, there's not much information about this whole thing, mostly you can get information from books and most of them contain WRONG INFORMATION. I've seen loads of books dating the start of activities to 1927 but when I was there I went to the cemetery and the first crosses were dated to 1926. So thats the information I kept in the article. RodrigoCruzatti ( talk) 04:10, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
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This article is pretty much plagiarized from a History Channel documentary. It needs to meet a higher standard. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.253.142.36 ( talk • contribs)
On June 11, 2009, CBC Radio's "The Current" broadcast a 10 minute story about Fordlandia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.50.52.237 ( talk) 13:24, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Is this name correct? Shouldn't it be "Fordlandia" ? As it was founded by Henry Ford, and the Ford Motor Company, both from the United States, it would seem that there shouldn't be any accents. It failed while still owned by the US Ford Company. -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 10:55, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
I second that. 1) How did Ford himself write it? - probably without the funny marks. 2) This is an English encyclopedia. 108.7.8.93 ( talk) 23:17, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
The article says Fordlandia is abandoned, yet the Google Maps arial photos, as well as the photos on the ground, show fresh paint, trimmed lawns, maintained roads, rows of recently-planted crops or trees, and contemporary vehicles. It is not entirely abandoned. Philgoetz ( talk) 23:32, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
I fixed it. It was never completely abandoned since the 20s, a very few people used to live there, now there's some more. I've fixed it.
RodrigoCruzatti (
talk) 04:04, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
The body of this article is copied totally verbatim from reference #2. It's cut off in the middle and makes little sense because it's taken out of context. Somebody needs to completely redo or delete this article. 98.175.133.60 ( talk) 18:02, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: move Fordlandia to Fordlandia (album) and redirect Fordlandia to here. There's firm consensus that this is the primary topic, but no consensus on whether the circumflex should be dropped from the name. ( non-admin closure) Alakzi ( talk) 23:05, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
– Fordlandia was an ill-fated boondoggle of Henry Ford, a well-known American industrialist who seemed to pay little attention to his critics and his diacritics. A few cited sources do seem to use the unusual "â" when discussing his project, but most do not – indeed, many sources don't even seem to mention the possibility of a diacritic ( a documentary film about the place, National Public Radio, Failure Magazine, a book on the subject, the Henry Ford Museum, the Michigan Historical Center, etc.). I don't know the full story of the "â", but it does not seem to be used by most reliable sources. Regardless of all that, the primary topic for Fordlandia is certainly not the obscure 2008 sixth studio album by an Icelandic composer of minimalist neoclassical electronic drone music – and the article for the album acknowledges this by talking more about the project by Henry Ford than about the project by the composer who created the album. This is true regardless of the apparent contrary opinion from the now-site-banned Kauffner, who moved the article to its current name without discussion on 19 October 2011. — BarrelProof ( talk) 22:32, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Well, as everyone knows, there's not much information about this whole thing, mostly you can get information from books and most of them contain WRONG INFORMATION. I've seen loads of books dating the start of activities to 1927 but when I was there I went to the cemetery and the first crosses were dated to 1926. So thats the information I kept in the article. RodrigoCruzatti ( talk) 04:10, 29 January 2016 (UTC)