On 3 May 2006, at 17:50, Philip Welch wrote:
On May 3, 2006, at 4:48 AM, Justin Cormack wrote:
The problem I have with all this stuff is the people who dont understand that an encyclopaedia is a historic record, and that just try to write this stuff about what things are now. Unless people are prepared to write from a historical perspective it is a guidebook not an encyclopaedia.
In this case, the coffee shop used to be a Hi-Co, and the bar was only built in the last couple of months.
Thats not a historical perspective, its what you remember. Unless you are going to write about the economic shifts in coffee shop viability in this area, and the architecture of the bar its still just guidebook stuff.
There are serious scholarly guides to tiny details (eg [[Pevsner]]'s architectural guidebooks to the UK) that could be used to build a detailed infrastructure of small scale place articles, and its a potentially interesting project, but there must not be a guide book mentality to it, there must be sources, history, and *reasons why* not just lists.
Justinc