Talk:Ancient trackway
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I'm very happy that this new article is being 'cleaned up', altered and added to, but without wishing to cause offence, I'm removing the 'in England' clause that's been added:
- I'm sure modern roads follow ancient trackways in other parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, N & S America, and this must surely even include the USA?
- I assume that by 'England', the writer meant 'the UK' (England, Scotland, Wales etc)
- I'm writing this from where I live, on the side of an ancient ridgeway, in the island of Jersey (UK but definitely not England)
--Nigelj 22:11, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I added the 'England' because it looked at that point as if the article was about that area of the world (our modern roads). I hasten to point out that apart from never having been further west than the Isle of Skye I have lived beside a Roman road myself and find the subject very interesting.
Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia :-).
The cleanup message is there (if I hadn`t added it, someone else would have done shortly) to indicate the article needs a little work before it can be considered truly "encyclopedic" (I'm not sure what the exact definition is, there's an explanation page somewhere but I can't find it right now). Anecdotal passages written in the first person do tend to get edited into something more "formal" though, if you get my drift.
Keep up the good work!
--Ianb 21:21, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Britain only???
Why is this article still so Britain-centric? I can't believe that there were no neolithic or mesolithic migration routes, ridgeways or other trackways in any of the rest of the world??? C'mon guys, open things up a little... --Nigelj 07:34, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Of course not Britain only
... but the article specifically says that this is a term used in Britain to describe what it then goes on to talk about. OK - so it needs expanding: here are one or two references to get things going, but the whole article then needs delineating: and then perhaps there should be separate articles referring to each part of the world cross-referred from it.
and see
- Road which refers to ancient roads
- Category:Silk Road
Soory didn't sign it! Peter Shearan 15:02, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
