Talk:Shell Guides

message: I have a New Shell Guide (Sussex, John Godfrey) first published in 1990, six years after the Thorold one mentioned. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bill Tegner (talk • contribs) 07:57, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Shell Guides 

message: There is a Shell Guide to Ireland. The long-running series was not just about the counties of Great Britain. The reference no.1 is misleading, and the mention of British Isles has been removed due principally to a dislike of the term for political reasons. 86.27.186.36 (talk) 21:35, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Please be civil - no ad hominen attacks are permitted or entertained.  The term "British Isles" was changed because it implied that a shell guide to the British Isles had been written (one had not), or that guides covering all of the British Isles had been published (they had not).  I have added a comprehensive list of the areas covered which is a better and more accurate way to show the depth and scope of coverage of the Shell Guides.  Bardcom (talk) 18:18, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Come on! The term was changed because you don't like it. Please credit me with enough intelligence to see what's going on here. Even a cursory look at your edit history demonstrates that your over-riding priority is to remove the term from the encyclopedia. You have many instances of its removal to your credit, in a whole range of subjects and areas. Often your edit summary does not reflect the nature of the change, mentioning "local POV" or something similar. Here is a particularly egregious example . This was summaried as "Removed unreferenced local POV". There were plenty of other unreferenced statements in the article, so why single out that one? You could have just put a citation tag on it. You have a mission, and it's an unsavory one. So don't accuse me of being incivil and threatening me with a block. I'm merely stating the obvious. Getting back to this article. There are Shell Guides for England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. They are essentially geographic guides. British Isles is a geographic term encompassing the areas of the home countries, so it makes sense to use it here rather than a list of the constituents. Now if the guides were of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland then it wouldn't be appropriate here, but such is not the case. You are clearly determined to remove the term at all costs, but I'm putting it back for the reasons just noted. Can you not direct your editing energies to something more productive than the systematic removal of British Isles? 86.27.186.36 (talk) 20:10, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've re-worded it again. Now if this version is factually incorrect then by all means correct it (don't just revert though, there are some uncontentious edits in there as well). I would claim it as a fact that the nations of the British Isles include Ireland. There are debates elsewhere challenging this, but most of the world accept it as given, and the issue shouldn't be fought out here. 86.27.186.36 (talk) 20:31, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Now we have "most of the countries in NW Europe". I suggest that's not as good as before. It's too general. Less information is being imparted. Was my version factually incorrect? 86.27.186.36 (talk) 20:48, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Anon IP.  It is considered an ad hominen attack to critise an editor and not the content.  You have been guilty of this - looking at your edit histories and summaries, you have stated many times that my edits were unfounded due to the fact that I'm on some sort of a crusade to remove the term "British Isles" from wikipedia.  This is untrue and factually incorrect, and if you read the RfA in detail (which you commented on), you could read my reasoning and look at the edits.  Even your language above attacks me personally with statements and assertions like "your over-riding priority is to remove the term from the encyclopedia", "You have a mission, and it's an unsavory one" and "Can you not direct your editing energies to something more productive than the systematic removal of British Isles?".  So take this warning to heart - stop being uncivil, assume good faith, and comment on the content and not the editor.  I have no problem discussing my edits - and I have no problem if the consensus says to use a different term. Bardcom (talk) 22:58, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: With regard to the current text.  It's much better and more accurate than what was there before, but personally I prefer the list.  But if this term can be agreed on, then I'll go along with it. Bardcom (talk) 23:00, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not list the counties in a County guides section and list the countries in a Country guides section? Crispness (talk) 06:37, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shell Guide to Ireland 

message: I love this part, but would appreciate some examples to substantiate this claim. 46.208.92.66 (talk) 14:38, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  '[...]a surreptitiously subversive synthesis of the British countryside[...]'