On 6/21/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 21/06/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Cataloguing runs into the "wikipedia is not an
indiscriminate
collection of information"
What's indiscriminate about cataloguing?
Ec
The way it appears to be done with regards to the archives of the
various formally nationalised industries in the UK.
One example of something being done badly does not mean you can
redefine the concept to mean "is done badly"...
Okay that was the jokey answer. The serious answer is that a catalogue
of concerned with the entire contents of any given set and not so much
with the encyclopedicnes of items within that set.
For example:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/heritage/lbsearch.htm
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/heritage/colsearch.htm
Although useful (since under UK law you can view any item on the list
on pain of the owner having to pay tax on it) have no place in
Wikipedia (although the general law involved probably does).
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geni