Terms applied to Hill Status alteration
Introduction:
For many years I
considered there were only three terms applicable to status change within an
objective hill list. With a fourth term
a subsidiary of one of the three. These are
detailed below:
Addition: When a hill not in
the list is added to it.
Reclassification: When a
hill that is already in the list changes status. As in, from the main list to the accompanying
sub list or vice versa.
Deletion: When a hill in the
list is deleted from it.
Reinstatement: When a
hill previously in a list that was deleted from it, is reinstated to it. Although this term is a subsidiary of an
Addition, it can also be considered a separate term.
However, not all status
alteration is covered by the four terms outlined above.
Explanation:
When compiling The Welsh P15s I considered taking the
accompanying sub list down to P10.
However, such a task would add a number of years to what was already a
huge undertaking that eventually took eight years to complete. Because of this I decided to opt for a P14
sub list. This would at least capture
many hills that stood a chance of P15 qualification after more detailed
scrutiny such as using a GNSS receiver or LIDAR analysis.
When updating the
numerical details in the The Fours – The
400m Hills of England list for December 2013 Europeaklist publication, I
decided to use the same listing method as The
Welsh P15s and list the English 400m hills down to P14. This was a fail safe to hopefully capture all
the P20 subs that then accompanied the main list. This has served us well as we recently
revised the Sub-Fours to also include P15s.
When updating the
English 400m list for July 2024 publication on Mapping Mountains, all of these
hills including those listed as P14s were analysed via LIDAR. By doing so a number of hills that were
listed with 15m or more and below 20m of drop and therefore would meet the
newly revised P15 Sub-Four status were found to have less than the minimum 15m
of drop required. In affect, once the
Sub-Four category was revised and prior to LIDAR analysis these hills were
Sub-Fours in all but publication and then found not to meet the criteria for
this sub category. I did consider they
could be deemed as deletions, but as they were never officially listed as
Sub-Fours, they did not meet this description.
Therefore, these hills were not additions, reclassifications nor
deletions.
But if not deletions,
what were they?
A little thought came up
with the term of exclusions.
This term fitted perfectly
with what had happened to these hills, as when originally listed they met the
criteria which would be later used for Sub-Four status. However, when updating using a more accurate
listing method; in this case LIDAR analysis, they were found not to meet the
minimum drop criterion. Therefore, they
were once considered part of the revised list but never officially published as
such and having been LIDARed now excluded.
The important factor at
play in this scenario is that these hills were never officially listed as
Sub-Fours, so they cannot be considered deletions, as this phrase implies that
they were once officially part of the published list.
The above scenario
details the fifth tenet of terms applicable to hill status alteration;
Exclusion.
However, there is a sixth
term; Rejection.
The term Rejection
applies to hills listed by previous hill list compilers which have been
rejected by the respective current author, with each using the same criteria
for qualification. The important factor
in this scenario is that these hills were never listed by the current author,
who upon analysis of a previous list rejected them based on using the same
qualififying criteria.
Therefore, the six terms
applicable to status alteration are:
The Six Terms:
Addition: When a hill not in
the list is added to it.
Reclassification: When a
hill that is already in the list changes status. As in, from the main list to the accompanying
sub list or vice versa.
Deletion: When a hill in the
list is deleted from it.
Reinstatement: When a
hill previously in a list that was deleted from it, is reinstated to it. Although this term is a subsidiary of an
Addition, it can also be considered a separate term.
Exclusion: Specific to hills originated by the list author that met criteria for a revised list but never officially published that are
now excluded.
Rejection: Specific to hills not originated by the list author and included in previous listings and rejected by current authors and which are
based on the same criteria. Also
included are previously unlisted hills proposed as possible inclusions, which
are later rejected and their details then documented.
Myrddyn Phillips
(September 2024)
My thanks for comments and
input on the Tump forum from:
Jez Turner and Henry Marston;
the former’s comments made me consider that the term Exclusion did not take in
all similar examples; and this resulted in the term; Rejection.
Alan Dawson and Rob Woodall;
the former’s comments resulted in the inclusion of the term; Reinstatement as
one of the four originating terms, and the latter’s comments resulted in the term
Rejection also taking in previously unlisted hills.
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