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A414163 I just ran across this article and liked it.
thought I'd pass the word.

http://www.h2g2.com/A414163

Having read the article, it's hard to find anything in there with which to disagree. And there's much to be amused by. Thanks, hickory, for bringing it to our attention.

I would say that the main obstacle to Edited status for this article is its lack of balance. Perhaps, like torture, this isn't a subject on which balance is appropriate, and I think you'd have to go a long way to find any defenders of the white elephant's skull; but for controversial subjects The Towers have always encouraged objectivity.

The other point would be, this site will hopefully far outlive the dome...

GVI

Hmm, this doesn't seem sufficiently well balanced, does it? There's no mention of ineptitude or corruption. Still, it's a good read.

I think there's more stuff that could be added now that even more incompetence and idiocy has occured. Plus the tense needs to be put in the past now.

Mention of the auction sale of the accumulated junk from the dome would be promising... ($5 for a few thousand "Been there, Dome that" T-shirts).

Nice stuff, what's there, but there should be more. I think it would be helped by giving it more structure - perhaps by putting it into chronological order. ("The concept", "The sponsorship", "The finished product", "the total failure", "the aftermath").

Not our finest hour...

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I'm taking this on

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There's a brief coverage of the Dome here (see number 2):

The Top Ten UK Publicly-Funded Fiascos - A18993577

Yep (already posted there....)

So how is this going, GB?

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It's not, I'm afraid. Take it on if you wish

If I can find the guide book I bought, I think I'd be quite tempted to. I went there with my then girlfriend, now wife.

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I've been there, for the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition, with Titania (no relation)

Did you know there's a god of the Millenium Dome?

No - tell me more!

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Tell you? How about I show you some photographic proof instead? A25159962 and F7844692?thread=5386846

This seems like it is worth pursuing

When I was putting the Christmas tree away I thought I'd sort through a couple of boxes, found a dozen books I can give to charity shops as well as my Millennium Dome guide book! So I could potentially use that as an aid to rescuing this article, although my memory of visiting the Dome itself is by nature a little rusty considering we went once over a dozen years ago...

But only if you have no objection, GB.

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New version: A87782872 in Peer Review here: F48874?thread=8299522

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Now Edited as: A87784582 The Millennium Dome

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