Talk:Gunpowder Plot
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I think "popular legend", while better than the immediately previous phrasing, is still a bit of a whitewash; torture is strongly indicated by secondary evidence (the timeframe of the information received from Fawkes, and the almost-illegible condition of his signature on the confession). - Hephaestos 00:32, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Fair enough. Feel free to remove my comment - I just stumbled over the signature comparison (http://www.bcpl.net/~cbladey/guy/images/allsig.gif) on Google, and I'm convinced. The King's order did not require torture, but he had to personally order it for it to be legally allowed, and I really doubt that, given the scale of the plot, it would not have been used. -- Pakaran 00:41, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Oh, and Guy Fawkes has a good-sized paragraph about the torture. Might be good to include? Or just make the torture discussion here a "see also?" I need to get some stuff done tonight, or I'd take care of it. -- Pakaran 01:26, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- I think a "see also" would do it, although I'm not really sure about how to word it right at the moment (which is also the reason I didn't change the article, the only wording I could think of was way too verbose). - Hephaestos 02:25, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
This article contains contradictory information, on one paragraph it states that there were 20 barrels of gunpowder, and in a later paragraph states that there were 36 barrels of gunpowder. They cant both be right, can someone check to see which is correct, and properly merge the different bits of the article together G-Man 11:53, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
For the time being I will standardise on 36 barrels unless someone finds evidence to the conrary G-Man 12:19, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Why are there no references to the celebration of "Guy Fawkes Day" in Great Britan? Isn't this a major oversight? Boetron 15:19, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
The large part of the text in the section "The plot" has obviously been taken from some source. Can anybody identify this so that it can be properly attributed? --Spudtater 16:15, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
