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It's good to see someone was able to write an article about this. I've intended to for a while now but hadn't gotten around to it. Anyway... I've also heard these referred to as "lazy windows" but don't have a reliable source for it. Maybe someone else can dig one up. Dismas| (talk) 10:43, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
What happened on or just before November 23, 2011, that caused this page to get more than 6,000 hits???-- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 21:17, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Or early March 2016 (close to 15,000)? -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 20:01, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
Or October 19, 2016 (about 800,000)! -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 16:29, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
It seems that a single sentence, late in the article and almost a throw-away, has taken over. This article has been classified under "superstitions", which may be the cause of its popularity, despite the caveat that the broomstick explanation—if real—was probably not taken seriously. Go figure. -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 20:47, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
Other reasons: the page was mentioned (and linked) on Reddit, and Buzzfeed named this page as one of the " 24 Of The Strangest Wikipedia Pages That'll Send You Deep Into A Wiki-Hole". That likely sent a lot of traffic this way in the next day or two. -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 15:08, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
This article needs a section on operation. Normal sash window counterweights hang adjacent to the sash. For a diagonal sash, how would this work? It would seem that the weights drag against the framing; wouldn't the friction be a problem, as well as cause wear and tear? Or, if these windows do not open, the article should say so. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 03:57, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
I just happened to come here in response to a Facebook post with some information I doubted. Just a short amount of digging quickly revealed a bunch of dead reference links, some unreliable references, and eventually one good reference not used here that refutes some of the information here. I don't have time right now to work on any of this but if someone else decides to move in, they might find this article very helpful. https://www.vpr.org/post/whats-history-vermonts-witch-windows#stream/0 SentientParadox ( talk) 04:40, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
Have sources been removed? I can go through and rescue dead links with IAbot, if the old links are still there. jp× g 19:22, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
A fact from Witch window appeared on Wikipedia's
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It's good to see someone was able to write an article about this. I've intended to for a while now but hadn't gotten around to it. Anyway... I've also heard these referred to as "lazy windows" but don't have a reliable source for it. Maybe someone else can dig one up. Dismas| (talk) 10:43, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
What happened on or just before November 23, 2011, that caused this page to get more than 6,000 hits???-- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 21:17, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Or early March 2016 (close to 15,000)? -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 20:01, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
Or October 19, 2016 (about 800,000)! -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 16:29, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
It seems that a single sentence, late in the article and almost a throw-away, has taken over. This article has been classified under "superstitions", which may be the cause of its popularity, despite the caveat that the broomstick explanation—if real—was probably not taken seriously. Go figure. -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 20:47, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
Other reasons: the page was mentioned (and linked) on Reddit, and Buzzfeed named this page as one of the " 24 Of The Strangest Wikipedia Pages That'll Send You Deep Into A Wiki-Hole". That likely sent a lot of traffic this way in the next day or two. -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 15:08, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
This article needs a section on operation. Normal sash window counterweights hang adjacent to the sash. For a diagonal sash, how would this work? It would seem that the weights drag against the framing; wouldn't the friction be a problem, as well as cause wear and tear? Or, if these windows do not open, the article should say so. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 03:57, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
I just happened to come here in response to a Facebook post with some information I doubted. Just a short amount of digging quickly revealed a bunch of dead reference links, some unreliable references, and eventually one good reference not used here that refutes some of the information here. I don't have time right now to work on any of this but if someone else decides to move in, they might find this article very helpful. https://www.vpr.org/post/whats-history-vermonts-witch-windows#stream/0 SentientParadox ( talk) 04:40, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
Have sources been removed? I can go through and rescue dead links with IAbot, if the old links are still there. jp× g 19:22, 31 March 2021 (UTC)