Talk:Ghost town
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This process continues to this day, with the village of Etzweiler in northwestern Germany being abandoned in the 1990s to make way for a coal mine [2] [3].
- I don't think this is a good example - Etzweiler was abandoned and destroyed, not just abandoned. --zeno 12:34, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Hashima Island was a Japanese mining town from 1887 to 1974. Once known for having the world's highest population density (in 1959 at 3460 people per square kilometer), the island was abandoned when the coal mines were closed down.
- 3460 people per square kilometer is a normal figure for a large or medium-sized city. The figure is incorrect. Swe 2 02:12, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ghosts
What about ghost towns where ghosts live?
Ghost do not exist and if they did they wouldn't live (that was a pun)
[edit] Qualifications
I've recently been starting articles for some of the small, historical towns in my community that have been extinct for many years, such as the Wabash River town of Baltimore, Indiana. Would this qualify as a ghost town? I'd be interested to know users' opinions.
(The reason I ask? To me, the term "ghost town" sort of implies that there are existing remnants of the town that are now abandoned, but in Baltimore's case there's no remaining trace.)
Huwmanbeing 20:46, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- It would seem to me that the word "town" would indicate a collection of buildings. One building abandonded, at least in my mind, is not enough to constitute a "town"; there would have to be like a dozen. If nothing remains of a town then it isn't a ghost town at all because nothing has been left vacant or abandon. --The_stuart 02:59, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
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- How then should a town that's completely disappeared be categorized? Extinct town? (It seems like the term "town" would still have be used in some way, despite the connotation of buildings, since that's what the place originally was.) "A town permanently abandoned by its inhabitants" is one definition I found for ghost town, which could apply in this case -- Baltimore was a town which was then permanently abandoned. --Huwmanbeing 12:31, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan has a couple of Ghost towns as Shusha, Agdam, Khojaly etc all due war with Armenia. It also has the largest ghost tonw in the world - Agdam, a city of 150,000 people but now nothing, thats gotta be a record! We need to get this information in this article!!
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- Sounds good to me, get a reliable source (see Wikipedia:Reliable sources) and put it in there. No need to clear it or anything, be bold! A mcmurray 14:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
