The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #13029   Message #106488
Posted By: Lesley N.
19-Aug-99 - 09:18 AM
Thread Name: Scotland is not England
Subject: RE: Scotland is not England
The issue here is not that the music of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales is culturally distinct. Of course it is. The issue is SOLELY link organization. What is the most efficient way to organize the links so people will spend the least amount of time looking for what they want to find? Separate England, Scotland, Wales category means that people have to potentially look through ALL of those categories to find something. And there will be some irritation to see the same link in all the categories. With a single category people need only click on a link and return with the back button to look at the next site.

If we had a sufficient number of unique links for each category that would be another thing entirely, clearly separate categories would be valuable.

Here I've submitted one more message than I planned to as the discussion went off, as Eileen says, on a hairy tangent that I probably should have anticipated, but didn't. This is a communal site and anyone can add link categories, so I will leave it to others in the community to do so at their will and when I find a good link will post it wherever it fits. That said, I agree - PLEASE don't add a Celtic category!!!