Talk:The Breakers

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Henry Flagler
The article on Henry Flagler links to here in discussing the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, which this obviously is not. The Palm Beach Breakers is worthy of its own article.

Public Domain ?
Is anything created by the US Gov really in the PD ? If so, we can copy verbatim from, which is very informative.


 * Yes, you could copy from this one verbatim, it's an official document. It's rather more detailed than we really want for WP though (in the same way that articles reference the results from a scientific paper, without actually including every detail of experimental methodology that the paper must include), so excerpting seems more useful than wholesale data dumping. Stan 22:57, 23 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I do not believe it is too detailed. After all, "The Breakers" is more notable than "Sonic the Hedgehog" is, aight ? Sonic the Hedgehog and are excessively detailed. Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia.--  ExpImp talk con 02:16, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I now incorporated what i believe are the most important parts. if you want, you can yet salvage lots of history-factlets from it.--  ExpImp talk con 02:53, 26 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, there are other articles that are also excessively detailed, and there are a bunch of editors who would take a hatchet to them if not for the legions of fanboys zealously guarding every bit of drivel... Part of being a compendium of knowledge is judicious summarization, irrespective of paper or online. Stan 20:46, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

See featured articles like Holkham Hall, Belton House or even Palace of Westminster to some extent. That level of detail would be very welcome on this article. --W.marsh 14:22, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Third floor still a dwelling?
Don't some of the family still live on the third floor, and most of it is off limits to tourists? --RThompson82 (talk) 09:17, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

The third floor is closed to the public. Several descendents have occupancy rights. Sorry, I don't have a source though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Please Let's Not (talk • contribs) 02:39, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

The family had no rights and was evicted by the Preservation Society of Newport County for expressing their opinions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.185.77.31 (talk) 04:43, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Picture Formatting
I'm not sure how to do this, but somebody needs to shrink those pictures. Right now it's overtaking the text and chopping up the interface. 24.130.3.207 (talk) 05:13, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Redundancy in description of plantings
I deleted one sentence which listed the species of shrubs planted next to the terrace, since the same information is provided later in the paragraph. There's still some redundancy given that the same three species are listed two times, but since those are evidently descriptions of different parts of the grounds, I let them stand. 206.208.104.20 (talk) 12:40, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

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Incorrect date?
The prior mansion on the site is described as burning on November 25, 1892. Then the rebuild is described, and it's stated that "Expansion was finally finished in 1892." That doesn't seem possible in 30-some days. Was it actually 1895 that expansion was finally finished? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.22.134.119 (talk) 04:35, 1 January 2022 (UTC)