A Conversation for Guide Entries that Should Be Written
Entries that should be written.
shagbark Started conversation Jul 11, 2001
heres something to think about
you have a page on canadian money but not
new UK Money or new US Money
also in geography there are large countries
missing like Argentina
so here are my suggestions
1. New UK Money
2. New US Money
3. Argentina.
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Researcher PSG Posted Jul 12, 2001
I think there should be a concerted effort to make entries on Actors biographies including there work so people can follow a link from a program or film they did and find out about them and what else they have done.
Also more local flavour entries, little peculiarities of places be they games or conventions for politeness.
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Researcher PSG Posted Jul 12, 2001
More specific ideas:
Dog training
Spaniels
more to come..
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Researcher PSG Posted Jul 12, 2001
The top 20 cocktails in the world and how to make them.
The world of drinks [what drinks are served in each country, which are popular, etc] 
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Researcher PSG Posted Jul 12, 2001
Snackfoods of the world [What country has what, what snack is popular, etc]
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Researcher PSG Posted Jul 12, 2001
Dog training
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, UK
How to make bread
Home Brewing [for my Dad]
Physics: Equations
Physics: Constants
Physics Symbols
More later...
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Researcher PSG Posted Jul 12, 2001
Dilbert, cartoon
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The adventures of Michael Palin: Around the world in 80 days, pole to pole, etc
Ruth Rendell
Ben Elton Novels
More later..
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Researcher PSG Posted Jul 12, 2001
Bridget Jones's Diary
Gormenghast
Oliver Sacks
The Wind in the Willows
More later..
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Researcher PSG Posted Jul 12, 2001
Abe (oddworld) series of games
catalogue shopping
The Bronte Sisters
More later...
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Lisa the Freak // Poet by the Toga Posted Jul 12, 2001
the US education system & the UK education system
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Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE) Posted Jul 12, 2001
How about carbonless carbon paper?
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jul 12, 2001
There is no Edited entry about Alcohol (but maaaaaaaany about stiffdrinks and cocktails and beer and hangovers)
'Country' entries: most notably, there is no 'Great Britain' or 'United Kingdom' entry, although (I guess) the vast majority of researchers is British 
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jul 12, 2001
Further on, there are no Edited entries about
- boredom (how could we, as we are so busy on the site)
- the Organ, queen of instruments
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Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Posted Jul 13, 2001
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A99524
That one not good enough for you? Probably not - it's too short. But it's there.
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jul 13, 2001
Ooops, I missed that one . Perhaps it was too boring to do a thorough search for it? 
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Frankie Roberto Posted Jul 13, 2001
Here's my list of ideas:
Enigma - How the German cipher was broken (no specific article already on this)
Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales - Haven't been here for ages so an entry on it would be good.
Filmmaking - The different stages of making a feature film.
Organising a Party - Community written?
Analysing Handwriting
Builiding A Dream Home - If you could build a home from scratch, how would it be built and what would be in it.
Useful Gadgets - List of gadgets that are actually useful
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jul 13, 2001
oops again, the Alcohol entry at A4960 *is* edited. But it's rather rudementary though!
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Researcher PSG Posted Jul 13, 2001
Hello!
Here is another thing missing an entry:
Randall and Hopkirk[deceased] - TV series (2 seperate series in fact)
Researcher PSG
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Emily 'Twa Bui' Ultramarine Posted Jul 14, 2001
There's an entry about home brewing in the edited guide already:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A481060
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Administrator-General (5+0+9)*3+0 Posted Jul 14, 2001
Actually, suggesting entries that should be written by someone else seems silly to me. The last couple of times I came up with suggestions, I started writing them myself.
Admittedly, though, people can pretty easily come up with things that are missing from the Edited Guide. Just click on Life,The Universe, or Everything, and start checking topics. I just clicked on The Universe, went to North America, and noticed some fairly major gaps. I guess I'd better start writing articles about Massachusetts, Greenland, and Prince Edward Island...
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Entries that should be written.
- 1: shagbark (Jul 11, 2001)
- 2: Researcher PSG (Jul 12, 2001)
- 3: Researcher PSG (Jul 12, 2001)
- 4: Researcher PSG (Jul 12, 2001)
- 5: Researcher PSG (Jul 12, 2001)
- 6: Researcher PSG (Jul 12, 2001)
- 7: Researcher PSG (Jul 12, 2001)
- 8: Researcher PSG (Jul 12, 2001)
- 9: Researcher PSG (Jul 12, 2001)
- 10: Lisa the Freak // Poet by the Toga (Jul 12, 2001)
- 11: Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE) (Jul 12, 2001)
- 12: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Jul 12, 2001)
- 13: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Jul 12, 2001)
- 14: Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat (Jul 13, 2001)
- 15: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Jul 13, 2001)
- 16: Frankie Roberto (Jul 13, 2001)
- 17: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Jul 13, 2001)
- 18: Researcher PSG (Jul 13, 2001)
- 19: Emily 'Twa Bui' Ultramarine (Jul 14, 2001)
- 20: Administrator-General (5+0+9)*3+0 (Jul 14, 2001)
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