Wikipedia talk:1911 Encyclopedia topics/15

Possibly going to make a list here of towns or biographies for focus. Looking for suggestions. Any comments or suggestions? please add them to here. There may be too many towns, or maybe not. I think it would clear things up to put them here with country sections and such. --DanielCD 16:19, 4 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Why not just create the articles? Even a 1911 version of a town description is better than nothing. Stan 17:47, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1911 descriptions may be better than nothing, but insofar as World War II goes, some of these villages became utterly destroyed, and 65 years of political history and economic growth have equally destroyed the context. 1911 German history does not adequately do the new, 66-years-worth of history the Polish place has. I've been doing all the German wiki Landkreis bits. Lots of these places are now merely districts of larger cities, rather like the town of Harlem is now a district of the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York State. We forget how small Germany and France are, about the same size as New York State. I gather that the Gut'g project is doing a corrected version of the EB 1911; at a certain point, we need to wait for uncorrupted text.
 * But in the meantime, I will continue to do places.
 * I do do articles, but some of them are really obsolete.


 * I wasnt saying we should not do the articles. I was just tossing the idea of using it as a focus page because I thinks it's working well with page 16. No big deal; I'm just going to drop it for now. --DanielCD 12:20, 6 October 2005 (UTC)


 * No problem. The 1911 science articles are beyond me. I'm better at the geo-political articles (I even resolve Romanian place names). I dislike leaving a stub, so I do another-language-wiki reference in preference (machine translation is still in its infancy, albeit helpful). I suggest a reorg of the remaining articles in to 1911 people, 1911 places and 1911 science, with dictionary items on the side. There remain some good articles to capture (e.g., Louis XIV's cabinet maker), but a longer article represents several hours of work (especially *finding* the appropriate catetories, and, at this late stage of eb 1911, runs the risk of being slapped with a merge template. I prefer spending my time finding the blue links. Hint: pages of 25 items work well, as they quickly load, quickly save, and quickly get done; pages of 300 or more dissuade people from working. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by FourthAve (talk • contribs) 07:41, 7 October 2005 (UTC).