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The history of the Edited Guide
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Started conversation Jun 24, 2011
How has the EG changed over time? How did it start out? What made the changes and why?
Ditto PR.
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Vip Posted Jun 24, 2011
Oooh, yes, brilliant topic.
I believe (given I wasn't there at the time) that initially you wrote an Entry and submitted it to the great Mark Moxon. He then said yes or no, and it was added to the Guide, pretty much 'as is'. After it became apparent that this workload was obviously stupid, they had to come up with a better solution.
I don't know if this was the birth of PR though, or whether there was something in between.
We need some proper 
people here for that!
The history of the Edited Guide
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Jun 24, 2011
How interesting. So the EG volunteer schemes must have evolved out of that.
yes, where's the zimmer brigade?
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Vip Posted Jun 24, 2011
Actually the Post archives would be the perfect place to start. It's original purpose was to keep the Community informed about the changes that were going on (again, I believe).
Did you see this post? F19585?thread=374419&skip=40&show=20#p4804077
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Nosebagbadger {Ace} Posted Jun 24, 2011
Just wandered down into here - should i start a "history of the post" thread?
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Jun 24, 2011
I would have if I'd bothered to read the thread I resurrected this 
Nice find 
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Jun 24, 2011
Good idea Nbb
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Jun 24, 2011
Looky: The 'All About h2g2' Archive http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A2279081
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Nosebagbadger {Ace} Posted Jun 24, 2011
Well thats certainly convenient, however I'm not one for things like this, I tend to just lean back and make poking remarks and the occasional PR/EG (ah, wait, thats why i'm here) entry
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 24, 2011
Before PR there was the Fun Run, worked on, established or whatever by such old stalwarts as Martin/Lucinda, if I remember rightly.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 24, 2011
In fact, here we go:
A154739
A130852
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 24, 2011
A118397 - and the old 'Field Critic' volunteer page.
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The history of the Edited Guide
- 1: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Jun 24, 2011)
- 2: Vip (Jun 24, 2011)
- 3: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Jun 24, 2011)
- 4: Vip (Jun 24, 2011)
- 5: Nosebagbadger {Ace} (Jun 24, 2011)
- 6: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Jun 24, 2011)
- 7: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Jun 24, 2011)
- 8: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Jun 24, 2011)
- 9: Nosebagbadger {Ace} (Jun 24, 2011)
- 10: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Jun 24, 2011)
- 11: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Jun 24, 2011)
- 12: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Jun 24, 2011)
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