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I have tagged the claim that Dr. Plot mentioned a long-forgotten network of underground tunnels in this section:
and also reported the existence of a long-forgotten network of underground tunnels. According to the book, the entrance to these long-forgotten caves was discovered by a farm workman who, while digging a trench, discovered a large iron plate beneath the earth. The hatch was large and oval, with an iron ring mounted on it [1]. Whether or not the tunnels exist, the story has become part of a worldwide urban legend of interconnected subterranean cities.
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The removal was then reverted with the comment:
At first glance the answerbag.com source looks unreliable, but I looked further.
Should we accept such a source for this article? - 84user ( talk) 16:17, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
As Google now makes Plot's posthumous 1705 Natural History of Oxford-shire available online, we can now use it for citations. Here is one:
(I replaced all the old forms of s ("f") with "s", and ignored the italics). I have also removed all the uncited stuff about tunnels. If anyone can find teh page in Plot's book where it is mentioned, feel free to insert it.- 84user ( talk) 02:49, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello all. I would first like to express my gratitude to everyone who has contributed to this article. As part of a Wikipedia Education Program for a college course covering the history of science from antiquity to Newton, I have chosen this article as my focus. The goal was to take a stub article and expand it. After browsing through several topics I came across this article and was intrigued. While the article had a good foundation, I believed that it could be articulated on as well as improved aesthetically. Here are a few improvements I made to the article:
Although these edits may not seem overly substantial, I have put a lot of time and creativity into this project. I hope that everyone is please with the article, but always feel free to make suggestions for improvement. Thanks, Zoulogy ( talk) 23:34, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
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I have tagged the claim that Dr. Plot mentioned a long-forgotten network of underground tunnels in this section:
and also reported the existence of a long-forgotten network of underground tunnels. According to the book, the entrance to these long-forgotten caves was discovered by a farm workman who, while digging a trench, discovered a large iron plate beneath the earth. The hatch was large and oval, with an iron ring mounted on it [1]. Whether or not the tunnels exist, the story has become part of a worldwide urban legend of interconnected subterranean cities.
The article history shows that section was removed with the comment:
The removal was then reverted with the comment:
At first glance the answerbag.com source looks unreliable, but I looked further.
Should we accept such a source for this article? - 84user ( talk) 16:17, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
As Google now makes Plot's posthumous 1705 Natural History of Oxford-shire available online, we can now use it for citations. Here is one:
(I replaced all the old forms of s ("f") with "s", and ignored the italics). I have also removed all the uncited stuff about tunnels. If anyone can find teh page in Plot's book where it is mentioned, feel free to insert it.- 84user ( talk) 02:49, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello all. I would first like to express my gratitude to everyone who has contributed to this article. As part of a Wikipedia Education Program for a college course covering the history of science from antiquity to Newton, I have chosen this article as my focus. The goal was to take a stub article and expand it. After browsing through several topics I came across this article and was intrigued. While the article had a good foundation, I believed that it could be articulated on as well as improved aesthetically. Here are a few improvements I made to the article:
Although these edits may not seem overly substantial, I have put a lot of time and creativity into this project. I hope that everyone is please with the article, but always feel free to make suggestions for improvement. Thanks, Zoulogy ( talk) 23:34, 5 June 2013 (UTC)