Talk:Factory
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[edit] Typical British Revisionist History
Every day Wiki becomes more and more useless for a soucre of factual information because of entries like the following -
Many historians regard Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory (established in 1761 in Birmingham) as the first modern factory. (Other claims might be made for John Lombe's silk mill in Derby (1721), or Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill (1771)—purpose built to fit the equipment it held and taking the material through the various manufacturing processes.) One historian, Jack Weatherford, contends that the first factory was in PotosÃ, for processing silver ingot slugs into coins, because there was so much silver being mined close by. [4]
British colonies in the late 18th century built factories simply as buildings where a large number of workers gathered to perform hand labor, usually in textile production
What a complete load of nonsense. Factories of those sorts were being built all over Europe and in fact the world. In truth there was purpose built factories built hundreds of years before 1761 and ANY objective and educated "historian" would be fully aware of that. To claim any historian regard something in the Soho Manufactory as the first factory would be laughable except the fact that many BRITISH "historians" probably would. That is a sad but true fact. The more I learn about history and Britian's part in it, the more I learn that this intentional revisionist history is common and makes me question anything historical related to Britian. In no other country have I seen this so wide scale.
And you know the worst part? No where does this article mention the true meaning or history of the word, that factories were groups of people outside of a country working for production, ect for their home country. That is not just the history of the word but fundamental to understanding the use of the word.
[edit] Reverted move
I reverted the move of this article because I believe that it was contrary to the guidelines on disambiguation and naming conventions. Most importantly, if there is a meaning that is by far the most common, that meaning gets the undisambiguated name and a link to a disambiguation page, or the other article, if there is only one, is put at the top of the article. The manufacturing meaning is by far the most common. Second, the undisambiguated name should never be a redirect. It should either be an article about the most common meaning or a disambiguation page. If you want there to be a way to tell whether links to a disambiguation page are intentional, the proper way to do it is to make a disambiguated redirect. In this case, factory would be the disambiguation page and factory (manufacturing) would redirect to it. When people intentionally link to the disambiguation page, they would link to factory (manufacturing) and let it redirect to factory. You can put a pipe link in the link so that the "(manufacturing)" part is not seen. Here is what it looks like, [[factory (manufacturing)|factory]]. For these reasons, I reverted the move. If you disagree, please make a move request. Instructions can be found at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Most moves are uncontroversial and can be done without going through the requested move process, but if the move is controversial it should be done. It is also necessary to do it if the page that the article is to be moved to already exists because the other page must be deleted by an administrator before the article can be moved. Thanks, Kjkolb 10:27, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
