Talk:Great Moon Hoax

Sun
It repeatedly makes mention to both the Sun and the New York Sun, are two papers involved in this, or is it just incorrectly abbreviating.

Images
Just for curiosity I taked a look at the other languages versions of this article and in the Arabic (I guess is Arabic, yeah It's Arabic, because It got the "ar" in the address) It got some nice images. And I wonder How can you put images from other Wikipedias here?

And: Can anyone who understands Arabic tells here what are the terms of use of those images?

Because maybe the terms of use of those images are not compatible with the English Wikipedia.

--Camahuetos 14:58, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

eh? What do you mean a rewrite?
What is up with the tag at the top of the page? What am I missing? I read the article, and to me it reads quite fine. Maybe it can be further polished somehow, but a complete rewrite, come on? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.181.13.83 (talk) 14:59, 7 May 2007 (UTC).
 * I think the editor was suggesting that a large portion of the article was lifted from a web site - that does seem to suggest that a re-write is worthwhile. I might have a few sources so I'll start picking at it here and there. -Midnightdreary 23:43, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * If it's a copyright violation than it needs to be deleted ASAP. Otherwise, there is nothing wrong with it. If you want to re-write it, fine, but it doesn't need a tag, it doesn't violate anything. -- 71.191.42.242 (talk) 21:45, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Confession by Locke?
The article currently says that "Locke never publicly admitted to being the author". However, an article by Thomas McDonough in "First Contact" (p64) says that "The poor astronomer had no idea that reporter Richard Locke was inventing completely phony stories ... amazingly, many people continued to believe in it even after the reporter confessed his crime." Backing this up, this webpage says that "It was not until the Journal of Commerce sought permission to publish the series in pamphlet form, however, that Richard Adams Locke, confessed authorship." Does anyone have a more reliable reference stating either way? Mike Peel (talk) 21:17, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Locke did indeed admit to being the author. The relevant section has been edited to reflect that fact. SkookumDog (talk) 20:51, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

New High Res Digitized LoC images for article
A few items from the Library of Congress collections were recently digitized that might be of use in this article.


 * The copyright submission of the artwork for the news stories

And some of these prints telling the story graphically:
 * Observing them through the telescope and traveling to them with a kind of chain space elevator
 * What the creatures on the moon looked like
 * using the creatures to fly back and forth to the moon — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tjowens (talk • contribs) 19:51, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Locke at Cambridge?
According to Matthew Goodman in The Sun and the Moon, there is no record that Richard Adams Locke ever attended even one class at Cambridge University; there is no mention of him in the Alumni Cantabrigienses. Perhaps it would be more accurate in the Authorship section to simply say that Locke was British born, and leave it at that. SkookumDog (talk) 07:24, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/moon-shot-race-a-hoax-and-the-birth-of-fake-news has a long article on the hoax, ending with "This essay is adapted from “Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News,” which will be published in November by Graywolf Press." 87.247.60.106 (talk) 07:59, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Gutenberg ebook
Maybe someone would add it to other sources? I don't have time http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62779 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.240.17.113 (talk) 04:04, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I added that link about 5 days before you asked for it. Jmdyck (talk) 12:35, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Thomas Dick satire?
The article currently claims that the moon hoax satirized a book by Thomas Dick, but that wasn't published until 2 years later. That book is cited as a source, but there's no source for the claim that it inspired the hoax. Were parts of the book or Dick's ideas published before the moon hoax, or is this claim simply false? Joortje1 (talk) 15:58, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Poe's "thunder"
This seems like an unnecessary, subjective take:

"Locke was able to upstage Poe and to steal his thunder." 2601:646:100:1070:DF6:F19E:72EA:E8E4 (talk) 03:27, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Seems Legit
— Assignment last updated by Merlinderhindergrinder (talk) 21:28, 13 November 2023 (UTC)