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"In August 2000, a group of geologists travelled to the summit of Pedra da Gávea with equipment to determine whether the mountain possessed any hollow spaces; their results showed that the structure was solid and that there were not internal tunnels or burial tombs." - Try "not any" or "no."--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 20:43, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Lionel Fanthorpe and his wife are not reliable sources by our criteria. He and his wife are fringe authors. See his article. He was President of the British UFO Research Association and their books include "Rennes-le-Chateau: Its Mysteries and Secrets (1991), The Oak Island Mystery: The Secret of the World's Greatest Treasure Hunt (1995), The World's Most Mysterious People (Mysteries and Secrets) (1998), Mysteries of Templar Treasure and the Holy Grail: The Secrets of Rennes Le Chateau (2004), Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars: The Story Behind the Da Vinci Code (2005), Mysteries and Secrets of the Masons: The Story Behind the Masonic Order (2006), and Satanism & Demonology: Mysteries and Secrets (2011)." Marx isn't any better either. I'm also wondering if the sources used for "Phoenician amphorae in Guanabara Bay by Robert F. Marx was used as evidence by supports that the Phoenicians were at least in the area" (I presume 'supports' is meant to be 'supporters') actually discuss Pedra da Gavea. Dougweller (talk) 22:04, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sure that Fanthorpe is a fringe-theorist, but the work cited in this article was published by a legitimate publisher and is confined to a single book (I also can't find any consensus on this site that he and his wife are "reliable sources by our criteria"). In addition, except for the mention of the sphinx, all the footnotes citing Fanthorpe are backed up by other citations. However, I did remove the source about Marx, since it was tangential (I was merely providing what Marx actually claimed it was, lest people think Marx himself was claiming that the artifacts were Phoenicians).--Gen. Quon(Talk)23:32, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I re-added the Marx bit, but this time, it is merely a footnote to clarify what he claimed, in comparison to the theories that some fringe theorists were using his info to promote.--Gen. Quon(Talk)
The authors might be fringe, but most of the speculation on Pedra da Gavea is apparently fringe, and even fringe authors are reliable for statements about their own opinions. However, the article is fine without that source specifically.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 02:52, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]