Engole is not a Wikipedia mirror, and we do not allow “anyone to edit”. We are experienced former Wikipedia editors who have written hundreds of Good and Featured articles, and created this site in the belief that the wiki model of collaboration was a success in quickly starting an online encyclopedia, but is not a sustainable model for maintaining one. We focus, but not exclusively, on UK-related subjects. So no articles on Japanese railway stations, abandoned villages in Vietnam or US baseball players, but you will find articles such as the tragedy of the Donner Party
Group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, where some of them resorted to cannibalism to survive. when they align with the topics we aim to cover.
Those topics include, but are not confined to, the weird, the unexplained, perception and gullibility, witchcraft and magic, and local history, the latter so important for reminding us of where we came from, and why we should care about our local communities. About twenty per cent of our content has no equivalent on Wikipedia, and the rest, much of which we wrote ourselves while on Wikipedia, has been improved in terms of accuracy, sourcing and general readability.
Editorial policy
We do not, and never will, publish articles on the biographies of living persons. So you won’t find an article on Nigella Lawson if you’re searching for a list of “english cooks”, but you will find articles on Elizabeth Raffald
18th-century English entrepreneur, author of The Experienced English Housekeeper, and possible inventor of the Eccles cake., Martha Bradley
18th-century English cook, author of The British Housewife. and Mary Eales
18th-century writer on cookery and confectionery, author of Mrs Mary Eales's Receipts (1718). But that doesn’t mean we ignore current events, such as a new episode of the BBC series Ghost Stories at Christmas
Horror story by the English novelist and historian E. F. Benson, first published in 1912., or the recently announced restoration of Rock Hall
Grade II country house in Moses Gate Country Park in Farnworth, built in about 1807 for John Crompton. in Farnworth.
Our guiding principles are that every article should
- Maintain a neutral tone
- Support facts with reliable sources
- Favour secondary sources over primary sources
We have generally adopted the Wikipedia Manual of Style as our style guide, but with certain minor differences to maintain consistency across every article. For instance, all dates are given in the DMY style common in most English-speaking countries except the USA.
Our aim is to provide reliable information fully supported by good quality references to source material, providing the reader with opportunities for further research. And to that end we use a consistent, centralised citation system conforming to the MLA standard whenever feasible,[a]MLA is designed with published written sources in mind, so we use MLA formatting for such citations, and MLA‑compatible fallback formatting for web sources, which very rarely have page numbers or date of publication, which MLA requires. and continuously monitor for link rot, so any broken links are quickly updated.
Please feel free to contact us with any comments.
Notes
| a | MLA is designed with published written sources in mind, so we use MLA formatting for such citations, and MLA‑compatible fallback formatting for web sources, which very rarely have page numbers or date of publication, which MLA requires. |
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