Talk:Picnic at Hanging Rock

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[edit] Whadderyameen

Whadderyameen the article doesn't site a reference? The book is a reference, innit? Captainbeefart 12:54, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of Trivia/Fact

please englighten me, does the trivia on this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemony_Snicket%27s_A_Series_of_Unfortunate_Events#Trivia follow your justification (rvt: trivia sections aren't encyclopædic). NeoDeGenero 18:53, 16 June 2006 (UTC) Since there is no reply for more than a month, i am putting it back in. (NeoDeGenero 14:56, 27 July 2006 (UTC))

I don't know why they would have removed that, I think it's a great bit of trivia. Don't bits of trivia usually have a Trivia sub-heading though, rather than an Interesting Fact subheading?Dw290 14:23, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
It was removed because trivia sections are un-encyclopædic and should be removed. It is folly to cite a similarly underdeveloped article as reason to retain an un-necessary section.--cj | talk 02:13, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
I think you need to expand your views on what is and isn't encyclopedic in this newly evolving online media. Speaking of folly in citing other articles, your own hyperlinked article is an essay, not a policy; that is yours or some person's opinion. personaly, if there is interest, and somebody wants a trivia section, what's the big deal? please don't sit there and lecture me or others on what you think is or isn't encyclopedic. you're acting like a trivia-nazi. --Joe_Volcano71.198.147.17 19:57, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
You are incorrect. It is a guideline with wide approval, not an essay as you falsely purport. Whether you like it or not, Wikipedia is an encyclopædia, and has set ideas about what it is not. And that you are resorting to ad hominen indicates to me that your argument is already lost.--cj | talk 13:36, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Then if you be so kind, please incorporate that little piece of information into the article somehow. I mean, what is the use of that information not available on Wikipedia, if everyone who studied the book were told that the author mucked up the date [/sarcasm] Ps. Dw290, i had it as a Trivia subheading, until it was removed. (NeoDeGenero 15:38, 10 March 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Link to Time Warp

The link time warp points to an article on the Rocky Horror Picture Show dance. The relevance escapes me, please enlighten.

  • I've changed the link to one more suitable.

Daydream believer2 July 8, 2005 14:42 (UTC)

[edit] Historical Inspiration?

This article is written as if the book/film were a work of fiction. As I understand it however, it's based (I don't know how closely) upon a true event. Can anyone confirm this? jmd 07:01, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

  • It isn't based on a historical event in any way. -Branddobbe 08:33, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
  • However, lest we get confused, the book does begin with a statment claiming the book is based on a possibly true event. Lindsay attempted to, and for years succeeded, make the reader question whether or not it had happened. Daydream believer2 09:43, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Clocks

I removed the following paragraph because it's unclear whether the details refer only to the film or to the book and the film. Someone familiar with both should clarify this. The Singing Badger 03:13, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

In real life, Lindsay was well known for her abhorrence of clocks -- she would not permit them in her home, and she titled her autobiography Time Without Clocks. The date of the picnic -- St. Valentine's Day, 1900 -- suggests a number of mystical and religious referents; the coachman's watch stops just as the party reaches the rock; just before the girls vanish, Irma hears a far-off sound, which suggests that she is hearing the sound of the searchers beating sticks on sheets of tin -- an event that does not take place until hours after the girls disappear. Edith also later recalls that she saw a reddish cloud through the trees of the rock, as she was fleeing down the rock. In the film, just before Miss McCraw sets off to find the girls, she is shown reading from a mathematics book, which is opened to a diagram depicting a number of interlocking geometrical figures.

Apparently, Joan Lindsay loved clocks. I read that she had a whole wall of them in her house, none operating, and all showing different times. --Natalex (talk) 12:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Symbolism

I pretty sure there should be some sort of symbolism section, which there normally is in many book articles. Hillhead15 14:38, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Film/Novel

This article should be about the novel only since it's a separate thing from the film, so I'm changing the article accordingly, tell me if you disagree.

There, changed the article around a little, added a few things and removed some others, but most importantly I separated this book article from the already existing one about the film (left the film paragraph in though). The article still needs fixing up and sources though. --Hst20 06:11, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Spoiler Warning

I also added a spoiler warning about the plot. Now I know this might be the wrong thing to do, but in this case I felt that one was necessary since the plot section is so short. It goes from the beginning to revealing the entire end in two sentences. Now since there are sources on the plot that's at least an easy edit, if I'm up for it soon or for anyone else, but until then I feel the spoiler warning is justified, anyone agree? --Hst20 06:11, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Picnic at Haning Rock (book).jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:49, 8 March 2008 (UTC)