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Excellent geographical entries outside the Edited Guide
Number Six Started conversation Apr 16, 2004
I've been thinking about this quite a lot of late - the Edited Guide format doesn't necessarily fit particularly well with geographical entries. Personal recommendations are out, for starters, and I think that's one of the areas where the Guide can score well - where we can give better information than most of the other sources out there. I think this is something kind of hinted at in A550955...
Take erkle's entry on Hitch-hiking through France and Spain (A2514296) - excellent entry, but he quite rightly decided that it'd lose a lot of its flavour if *all* the first-person references were taken out.
And also given Agent X's 'Assignment h2g2' idea that I'm planning to submit to 
in the near future, perhaps we should have a place to list and publicise the better geographical entries outside the EG - what d'you think?
Excellent geographical entries outside the Edited Guide
sprout Posted Apr 16, 2004
That would be a good idea - can I recommend the fantastic A92026 and A4448571 for starters?
There are loads more. I would recommend structuring it like a shadow of the EG geographical format.
sprout
Excellent geographical entries outside the Edited Guide
sprout Posted Apr 16, 2004
A448571, darn it.
Excellent geographical entries outside the Edited Guide
J Posted Apr 16, 2004
Remarkable what you've been doing while I was not paying attention... 
I also agree that the EG is not always necessarily the best place for geographic entries, and there should be a place that is. 
Excellent geographical entries outside the Edited Guide
Erklehammerdrat Posted Jun 11, 2004
oh hello, sorry i'm late by a couple of months.
hear hear to that idea is what i say. My will is with you but sorry, i'm just too lazy to actually do anything about initiating a shadow EG though.
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