Talk:Glastonbury/Archive 1

glastonbury (home of the glastonbury crooks)

Please provide some explantarion and a source. Then I'll stop reverting it. — AnnaKucsma (Talk to me!) 13:36, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What is there with this bloody Annwn? If anyone with any basic understanding of welsh or any other Celtic language contributed on this theme, how could you fail to mention the word Apple? All of them have the same root. Are we to believe that the name of the Gordon clan name is a derivation of God? David.

Still me. Actually, from what I understand, it would be quite improbable from a phonetic POV to go from Annwn to Avalon. David.

Added a link to Glastonbury Festival at the top, as many visitors to the page will be looking for this, as well as information on the town. It augments the link 'buried' in the introduction, making the page clearer for general users.

I disagree, both with the description of the link in the intro as "buried" - it's pretty clear - and that many visitors will be looking for the festival - all links to the festival will already point to the festival page, and most people using the search box will be aware that there are settlements of that name and search for "Glastonbury Festival". Joe D (t) 00:35, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It's in the middle of the second paragraph of the article - it takes some looking for! I think 'buried' was a fair description. What harm can a link at the top do as an aid to disambiguation? It makes the page clearer, without detracting from the article content. Surely that's what disambiguation - and, on a larger scale, the whole wiki process - is about? If, say, just 10% of users who stumble across this page are helped by the Glastonbury Festival link, it will have served its purpose. Remember, this page is for Glastonbury, not Glastonbury, Somerset. If people type 'Glastonbury' into the search box, they may be directed to this page first, without seeing a search page where they choose between Glastonbury and Glastonbury Festival. Perhaps there's a case for Glastonbury to redirect to a disambiguation page, with the current Glastonbury article moved to Glastonbury, Somerset. This all seems a bit major though, when a small link at the top of the current Glastonbury page does essentially the same job!

Thoughtcriminal 01:13, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The legend also says that earlier Joseph had visited Glastonbury along with Jesus as a Child. William Blake believed in this legend and wrote the poem that became the words to the most patriotic of English songs, 'Jerusalem' (see And did those feet in ancient time).

Are you sure? I always thought that Blake actually disbelieved the legend, and that the words to Jerusalem were supposed to be taken as ironic.

Changed the wording about the abbey ruins - it was not destroyed in the Reformation, it was dissolved then and the buildings were slowly ruined as the stones were recycled for local building work. JimChampion 08:44, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Decline of the New age

Over the past few years many New age shops have been replaced by less 'fluffy' pagan and witchcraft shops, changing the character of the town center. With 3 witchcraft shops and supporting outlets you are much are much more likely to be able to buy broomsticks than you are crystals these days. I've changed the text to reflect this. Backdooruk 12:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re: comercial websites

Sorry to be a pain and thanks for your patience, am new to this - Understood about Glastonbury Online - there was I thinking I was helping...doh!

No problem. Always happy to help if you have an questions about Wikipedia. --Cheesy Mike 14:06, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]