|
In lugnet.loc.uk, Huw Millington writes:
> > Is it 100% clear to someone coming into that page out of the blue that,
> > for example, "North East" means Northeast England rather than Northeast
> > UK? I'm obviously not intimately familiar with how people think of UK
> > regions on a daily basis, so it's tough to judge whether the list above
> > is single-layer or mixed-layer, especially in the minds of viewers.
>
> I believe it is. When someone says they are from the 'North East' they know
> you mean Newcastle, Sunderland etc. and not North East Scotland. However,
> that could obviously be different if they said it in Edinburgh.
OK, so it's not 100% clear all around 100% of the UK. That's what my concern
was. Thanks for providing a counter-example to illustrate.
> That said, shouldn't the .en. bit still stand?
> lugnet.loc.uk.en.ne
Yeah, I don't think it would be wise to drop the .en. bit.
> On the proposal as a whole, I agree with the English groups and their
> defined regions, but why should Scotland and Wales not be further
> sub-divided?
Surely no reason they couldn't be, if they're large enough for subdivisions
to be appropriate, and if people would generally understand the regional
divisions.
> For example
>
> lugnet.loc.uk.sc.hi Highlands
> lugnet.loc.uk.sc.bo Borders
>
> and so on (help from a Scot requred here, please!)
That's starting to come full-circle. :)
I think it would be good to have an expansion plan/outline in place for
.ni, .sc, and .wl, but not to create the subgroups until later if/when they
became particularly useful.
> I disagree strongly with the proposal to add the 'empire' countries in the
> same hierachy. Either keep them as they are or use some other sub-division:
> lugnet.loc.uk.<xx>.whatever. so they stand apart.
>
> Thus we have,
>
> lugnet.loc.uk
> lugnet.loc.uk.en
> lugnet.loc.uk.en. ... (english subdivisions)
> lugnet.loc.uk.sc
> lugnet.loc.uk.sc. ... (scottish subdivisions)
>
> (same for N.I. and Wales)
>
> lugnet.loc.uk.<xx>.<country> (for the 'emipre')
That's nice & clean.
--Todd
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
8 Messages in This Thread:
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|