User talk:Knownowt

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Gray's Inn Road
I think you might be overdoing it on that page. We're not a travel guide, and I suspect you may have difficulty supporting your edits with reliable sources (e.g. whether the Royal Mail recognises an address). JFW | T@lk  04:42, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Gray's Inn Road
Thanks for reading it! I hadn't intended to create a travel guide; my idea was to create the basis for a comprehensive historical geography of the Holborn area. Starting with the current state of the road, I would then add the history of each address. That would be followed by work on other roads. It would therefore be neither directory nor travel guide. However, it takes time to prepare, and there is a lot of detail to come.

I agree that few sources are presently provided, which I will remedy before adding the next section. I believe that every statement can be backed up by independent sources, although I will give some as general references (e.g. to the Royal Mail's postcode database) rather than adding footnotes to every line. The particular example you give is not difficult to back up - it is simply that there is no entry for 3 Gray's Inn Road in Royal Mail's database. I will change the page to make that clear.Knownowt 17:25, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi, I do admire the amount of work you've put in on this. However, most of the addresses are surely not notable enough for inclusion in an encyclopaedia. You would better spend your time recording the notable things that have happened in the Holborn area, rather than providing details on all the addresses. Wikipedia is not an encyclopaedia of everything, or of trivia (see WP:NOT for guidance). It is (sadly) inevitable that much of your hard work will lost. There may be a place for such a project, but I fear it's not here. Cheers. Kbthompson 17:29, 4 November 2007 (UTC)