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Entry: Maes Howe, part of The Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site - A2735039
Author: Frenchbean <4 stars> Life's like a dance. The music changes and then, who knows? - U236943

Hello Peerers

This entry is one of three - a triptych - based on The Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site, all of which I'm submitting to PR at the same time.

Skara Brae - A2735057
The Ring of Brodgar - A2735075
Maes Howe - A2735039

Each entry stands on its own, but they inter-relate. To have submitted them as one huge entry would have been too much I think. But I'll be interested to have your views, as ever.

Subs and Eds Given that the three entries are so interlinked, I would be *ever* so grateful if they could go through the EG process together. And possibly end up on the front page together? Such presumption

In the meantime, comments and questions all welcomed


Fb

Perhaps it would be worth changing the headers to sub headers?

Look erm, you don't need to know that I like this - !

Hello Z
They *are* subheaders

Ah, I wish I'd been able to visit this place as well as the other two!

I think the subheaders need changing to headers

Why Cyzaki? I haven't used headers in any of my entries, just subheaders. I prefer the look of them, but if there's a good reason for using headers, I will do so

Fb

Headers are used for each new idea, then subheaders if there are sections within these. One good reason for headers is if you use subheaders there's no way to create sub-sections within a section of your entry. Plus, I thought it was house style, but please correct me if I'm wrong!

Hello, Frenchbean. Thanks for another interesting entry.

You might like to mention and link to the Brú na Bóinne entry which describes a set of similar tombs in Ireland. It's at A647912.

I think it would be worth explaining at least once that Neolithic means 'New Stone Age'. You also might like to mention that the New Stone Age people were a farming community that built with stone.

high voltage lamp - I think you probably mean high power lamp.

I think your OS Ref is cumbersome. The Ordinance Survey reference applies to any map, not just the 1:50 000 series, so the footnote is a bit misleading. I suggest you remove the footnote and replace OS Ref with Ordinance Survey Reference.

4.6m2 means 4.6 square metres, which is a square of side 2.1m. This is wrong. What you meant to say was a square of side 4.6 metres, so you could say "4.6m square".

butressed --> buttressed

inscriptions, --> inscriptions,

Cyzaki I'm going to stick with subheaders, unless there's a majority in favour of headers. None of the subheadings have subsequent sub-subheadings

Gnomon Thanks for the link to your entry on Irish tombs Added.

Do you really think that people don't know that the Neolithic is the most recent era of the Stone Age? I think it could verge on the patronising Anybody else any views on that?

High powered lamp

I've slightly amended the OS reference footnote. But I put that in as a result of comments and discussions in PR about another entry in which I included grid references

No 'i' in Ordnance btw!

I've amended the rest

Now, if anybody can work out why the HREF link to Historic Scotland seems to be coming up as an unreachable H2G2 link, I'll be a happy bunny


Fb

Historic Scotland link sorted, thanks to Gnomon

FB, I would contend that it is Maes Howe itself that is similar to the Brú na Bóinne tombs. They all have a long passageway ending in cross-shaped chamber, in the middle of a circular mound about 80m in diameter.

Neolithic is just "New Stone" in Greek, so I don't think it is patronising to use the term New Stone Age. This is a common name for the particular era and many people may have heard it called this rather than Neolithic.

Sorry Gnomon! I've put the footnote in the right place now

A fine entry Fb

The only thing about it that I feel may be improved is this:
"and about 1m2: big enough for one person"
In Goo, the colon almost disappears and the sentence looks rather odd. Perhaps a dash instead of a colon? That may even be more grammatically correct... Gnomon? What can you tell us about the correct usage of colonic irrig... I mean punctuation

And I don't find it at all patronising to be told that neolithic means new stone age

Thanks Gosho
You've been busy with these three entries

I don't use goo, so wouldn't have spotted that problem with the colon. I've changed it.

OK, OK, I've added a footnote about Neolithic being the later part of the Stone Age, which is the OED definition I guess I better do the same on the other two


Fb

Gosho

You gave me a link to convert the measurements into imperial, as well as having them metric. Nobody else has raised that as an issue Do you reckon I should be thinking about doing all the conversions, or not?


Fb

I always put both in my entries... I guess you could leave it up to the Sub-ed, or ask the Eds themselves over at <./>Feedback-Editorial</.> I don't recall seeing any guidelines regarding measurements, but I must admith that I haven't looked for a while

If I find a spare hour over the weekend, I'll add them

Dang! Scrub that last post - I thought I'd deleted it

I've asked the eds Thanks for the tip