New: Blue plaque to Alan Turing (born here) from AndiBing

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Venue: Blue plaque to Alan Turing (born here)
Location: Warrington Crescent, Maida Vale, London, England, W9 1ER, United Kingdom
Submitted by: AndiBing
Website: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/alan-turing/

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Blue Plaque to Alan Turing, the father of computer science, was born here in 1912.

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[darkling]

I'm just going to drop this opinion here and run away... Sure, blue plaques mark important events, but they're basically the kale of monuments. I go back to my viewpoint of having something to experience that's a bit more than "something important once happened here".

[andibing]

I guess it depends on the definition of "...having something to experience..."?
If you have to take part in an activity, a huge number of NDT items would fail that test. :-O
I would have thought it's more about the emotion and impact of 'the thing'.

[popey]

I do feel there's a lot of "Thing happened here" or "Thing that commemorates a thing" in the dataset, for sure.

I don't have a strong opinion of whether they should or shouldn't be here. But I do wonder if we could have some way to show/hide things where there's nothing actually to see or do. Because, honestly a blue plaque is very much "Oh, okay" and carry on walking. Unless it's attached to a venue that's also a museum or other activity, it's not gonna make me make effort to go there.

[andibing]

Perhaps this is where we could pivot on the metadata. Thing to See/Thing to Do/etc...

Blue Plaques would fall into the same category as Statues, memorials etc.

[popey]

I agree. I am closing this until we have metadata (if we go down that route), at which point we could indeed at a bunch of blue plaques/memorials, and tag them accordingly, so people can filter them in or out.