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