Talk:English Heritage

Thoughts please:

When I started adding heritage-y type govt bodies for England, Wales etc I thought it would be good to provide as many links as possible.

In particular, I adopted a structure where each page for one of these UK agencies had links to:

a. Wiki pages for the other equivalent UK agencies

b. The *external* site of the agency itself

c. The *external* sites of the other UK agenices listed in (a).

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Looking at it now, I am beginning to feel that (c) is a waste of time and space. If you are on the Enhlish Heritage (EH) page and you want to know about Historic Scotland (SH), you can easily go to the wiki SH page and from there, if you want it, the SH external website is only one click away.

So, I am feeling inclined to remove the (c) bits from these four pages as I do not think they add anything. Comments please? Nevilley

Yes, I think you're right. As long as one can link to the equivalent Wiki pages, one doesn't need the extra external links. I haven't really started adding external links to much of my output, so I'll be able to bear that in mind from now on. User:Renata

OK done that. I think it makes more sense and is more elegant in its current form. Thanks, Nev

which is a direct result of government policy, but only up to a point, Lord Copper. EH are primarily a quango and are largely autonomous in most of their activities. user:sjc

SJC's amendment did not read as very NPOV to me but rather as a quite impassioned statement. I have altered it slightly. I thought it was OK to report differing views as long as they were clearly that, not stated as fact. Nevilley

Yeah, no probs. They are unelected and they are a quango though;. user:sjc

Actually, on reflection and another pint, I have concluded that EH are worse than the quango which they are: they are a national disgrace. I am still getting over the complete b****** they made of protecting Tinside Pool (a beautiful 30s art deco lido in Plymouth that should have been preserved for the nation) when I discover a whole host of ****ing atrocities which they have perpetrated. No one likes them, only the very stupid and the very gullible middle-classes that turn up at their theme park take on English history. I hope the b******* civil servant scum rot in hell. And that is about as neutral as I am likely to get on the subject of EH.... user:sjc