Talk:The Haunting in Connecticut

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Cleanup

I've (once again) cleaned up the article (removed excessive plot notations), removed the unverifiable content, cited relevant material, and rewritten the plot summary to make it more encyclopedic. I have also removed the template regarding the excessive plot matter. It would be to the benefit of the article if people refrained from adding anymore unsourced content or misusing citations on unverifiable quotes or claims. Oh, and just for posture: I've removed the below comment regarding "Hello Pappy..."bwmcmaste (talk) 08:29, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Someone vandalized the plot summary replacing certain things with sexual related acts/organs/persons. As with the first line, replacing "Matt Campbell who is being treated for cancer..." to "Robert Walker, who is being treated for being a sex addict...". No one seemes to notice this so I undid the vandalized material. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheFallenWillBeRemembered (talk • contribs) 21:02, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actual Events

Update: I've cleaned up the article (wikified it), added substantial content, and taken out alot of the poor structuring and prose that was mentioned earlier in this discussion. The article reads more like the others that we have here on Wikipedia, but I'd like it if someone could grab some better inline citations for my contributions: The site that I've sourced them from are blocked by Wikipedia's spam filters (even though it is running a legitimate story). If I were to weigh my opinion based on the research that I've done for this article: I would have a hard time believing that this movie was anything other than a horror/thriller, based on a story written by a guy, who has admitted that he intended to produce a work of fiction. bwmcmaste (talk) 19:16, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

to agree with the others on this page: There should be an expansion on these "true events". It would be a good contribution to this article, or as an interesting article on its own. bwmcmaste (talk) 17:53, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds like a reprint of the movie's press release. Shouldn't there be some discussion of the "true events" that the movie is supposedly based on? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.237.21.167 (talk) 01:19, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The author of the original book about this (In a Dark Place by Ray Garton) has repeatedly expressed his displeasure at his experience writing the book, calling it an all time low in his career as an author. He states that this is a work of fiction. I really don't think that a discussion of the veracity of the story is that necessary as it is discussed in the wiki article on Ray Garton and this is just an article on a film that claims to be "based on a true story". Well, it is based on a true story, as these are real people who lived in a real house.

DFS (talk) 10:33, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

the movie claims that it is based on a true, yet Wiki has nothing to say about this in its article on the movie. the claim is very prominent in the ads for the movie. the Wiki on Ray Garton doesn't say any of that. And so what if it writing it was so unpleasant? is the "true story" about how unpleasant writing this story was? or are we on the same page here. is it only a "true story" based on the characters being based on real people but that nothing like in the movie actually happened to them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.237.28.26 (talk) 02:00, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not a forum

Guys, can we limit the discussion to improving the article? If you would like to discuss this movie, do that elsewhere, like IMDb. If you have info regarding any of this stuff along with a request to somehow integrate it into the article, that's fine, this is not a forum for discussing the movie. Tubularbells1993 (talk) 11:54, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

agreed 66.235.9.15 (talk) 03:47, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mental state of the family who related this "true" story?

Garton has, however, noted that he doesn't like this book, and is glad it is out of print, saying: "The family involved, which was going through some serious problems like alcoholism and drug addiction, could not keep their story straight, and I became very frustrated; it's hard writing a non-fiction book when all the people involved are telling you different stories —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.168.175.84 (talk) 20:18, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have met the kid who allegedly had cancer, he was a drug addict and he was constantly seeing things. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bankman (talk • contribs) 00:54, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, he was diagnosed as a schizophrenic. Luckily, that's covered in the skeptical inquirer article I referenced in my edit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skeptic practitioner (talk • contribs) 07:32, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No longer haunted

I'd like to believe that, unfortunately, I cannot as it is not sourced. A lot of this article needs sourcing or at least citations (until I can figure out which I will not add any templates) Tubularbells1993 (talk) 15:10, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good! so far...

Now that we have laid out the supposed 'true story' on which this work is based, why don't we move on to merging the two sections? Tubularbells1993 (talk) 00:38, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think that some clean-up is in order first. Articles from Spill.com are not reliable sources, so they should be replaced. In addition, wtop.com and newsday.com are the same article, so only one should be cited. —Erik (talk • contrib) 15:13, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

this actually was a true story —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.222.29.98 (talk) 22:27, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I trust the skeptical inquirer article is a good one to shed some light on this case then. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skeptic practitioner (talk • contribs) 07:33, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reference cleanup & copyediting

I just did a good bit of reference-citation cleanup and some copyediting, and I wanted to make one point here that all editors adding references should take to heart. Never, never, ever use bare links as references. A bare link is just the URL of a webpage (e.g., http://blah-blah-blah.com/whatever), with absolutely no information about what the link is supposed to show.

The reason for this is that the Web is extremely dynamic, and your link has a good chance of being broken for many reasons – expired news story, website reorganization, change of ownership, web server unavailability, etc. It is extremely important to include as much information as possible to allow editors to fix these links when they break. Stuff like page or article title, author, work (newspaper or book) title, website name (which is sometimes very different from the web domain name), date of page (especially for news articles), and publisher (e.g., Associated Press, which is the original publisher of many news-feed services like Yahoo! News and local media outlets), all help us to find a new source for the old information, especially when the Wayback Machine hasn't archived a copy.

You don't need to fill in a formal {{citation}} template like I do, but at least include some of the above information between the <ref> and </ref> tags. Thank you for your assistance. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:39, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]