Talk:Marree Man

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Marree Man was the Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight on 3 October 2005. For details on how the article improved, see the ACOTF history

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Somebody provided this help at the voting page:

A couple of later newspaper articles are at http://100megsfree4.com/farshores/n02mar.htm and http://www.geocities.com/curiosities3/evidence.htm although obviously there must be more.

--Scott Davis ^Talk 12:13, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Nice, I've included some info from them in the article Astrokey44 05:04, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Plaque text? 2 When was it discovered - June or July? 3 Closeup image 4 Former Australian Collaboration of the fortnight 5 Removed section 6 Dimensions

[edit] Plaque text?

If someone could find a more reliable source of the text of the plaque than [1] it would be great.. Astrokey44 05:04, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] When was it discovered - June or July?

The sources I read so far mostly said that it was in June, such as [2] which gives the date as being 26 June. But then this article [3] said that it was discovered in mid-July, and the satellite photo taken on 28 June was taken before it had been discovered ???! Astrokey44 05:18, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Closeup image

A nice closeup image like this [4] would be great I think. (This one is copyrighted though I think -- I took it from the source linked with the interviews in the article references and cropped it close). Lisa 15:11, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

would a traced image on photoshop be worth doing? Astrokey44 22:48, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Good idea, so basically just a line drawing. I'll use that image I linked to for the tracing. It'll be nice to have it in the public domain! Lisa 00:27, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Former Australian Collaboration of the fortnight

This articles was ACOTF from 3 October 2005 to 16 October 2005

• 11 contributors made 44 edits
• The article increased from 0.9kb to 10.5 kb - over ten times longer
• See how much it changed

Thankyou to all editors. --Scott Davis ^Talk 15:14, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad to have done a little to help. --Sum0 22:16, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Removed section

" *Signs and miracles Life magazine’s cover, in July 1991, asked: “Do you believe in miracles?” and reported that thousands of unexplained miraculous phenomena are occurring worldwide. “I did a little digging,” said editor Peter Bonventre, “and it turned out there’d been a rash of sacred apparitions all over the world ... see Share International [5]

• "Very soon some of this information will become better known, and Maitreya of course is constantly in touch with the Hierarchy of other planets and uses them on occasions In Australia, for instance, there is a drawing which they call Marree Man, which is about three kilometres in length. It is carved into the land, a desert area north of Adelaide, and very wide marks on the ground draw out a very elegant figure with one hand holding a boomerang. The drawing is made by Maitreya and the actual figure is cut into the earth by the Space Brothers." Benjamin Creme, Editor of Share International. Please visit [6] Note: Marree Man reference is in last paragraph. "

This section was removed by User:204.116.242.126 without explanation. I was going to revert, but it isnt really very relevant anyway -- Astrokey44|talk 02:08, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Astrokey44. Leave it out unless it can be severly copyedited for relevance. --Scott Davis ^Talk 04:54, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

I didn't know it was there until now. This really isn't the place for speculation on religious phenomena. - Diceman 12:08, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dimensions

Surely it is not 4.2 km 'high.' Shouldn't it read 4.2 km long or something?

Furthermore as it is not a circle perhaps it should have 15-28km of perimeter instead of circumference?