> On 29/03/2011 16:16, Fred Bauder wrote: >> This >> >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Crestone,_Colorado >> >> is the village I live in. Perhaps the rule have been bent a bit, but I >> don't really see that civilization has been harmed, by doing so. What >> is >> a reliable source varies with the context. >> > > Well my own village has a 'History' but I wouldn't bank on half of it > being true. Travelling around, one comes across many of the same > stories, indeed they are repeated in a number of village histories on > WP. There are countless Four Crosses attributed to a Jonathan Swift > story, or some other man of letters, and how many medieval 'Rose' pubs > used to be the "Red Rose" or the "White Rose" until the War of the > Roses. So one has to take a lot of it with a pinch of salt, and you > can't really rely on the books either cos they are repeating much of the > same thing. > > But anyway with the above caveat there is a whole load of stuff to be > discovered and written about, but it mostly involves original research. > And BTW if the information available on English villages is poor, you > should witness the paucity that is France. >
Ghost towns in the American West are much written about. Fred _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
