Talk:List of antiquarian societies

Point of this list?
Could anyone explain to me what the point of this list is? At the moment, it seems to be merely a list of societies which include the word "Antiquarian" or "Antiquaries" in their names. However, to my mind, those choices of names are all the result of fairly arbitrary historical chance (the outcome of changing fashions and overlaps in meaning between the words "antiquarian", "archaeological" and "historical"). In the case of local societies, at least, there's no real difference in practice between what (say) the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society does and what the Kent Archaeological Society, the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society, or the Yorkshire Archaeological Society do. So should we add those societies here too? In which case should we change the name of this article to the more readily understood List of archaeological societies? Or alternatively should we delete this article entirely, and simply make sure that all these societies are included on the List of historical societies? GrindtXX (talk) 18:08, 13 October 2012 (UTC)