[WikiEN-l] Verifiability equating to notability

[Philip Welch]

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.

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Philip L. Welch
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