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Combining the 2 last sections on "List of documents.." and "The use of scribes", it leads me to the belief that to be a historian, the person must do more than just record facts or tales that e.g. the noble person asks the scribe to record. There are many such scribes prior to 5th BC Herodotes. To be a historian, a person must use a historian methodology to go beyond what is merely written down. A scribe or translator don't do that. The first one known to have done that in Western culture was the 5th BC Herodotus. How do you call this process of collecting all the written texts, artefacts from a certain culture and era, so the historian can let their historical method loose on them? How do we put this insight in the article? I had to discover it myself and laid me back a couple of days. {{ Help}} Thy -- SvenAERTS ( talk) 14:15, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

I've commented out the {{ helpme}} as it was not being used appropriately. Primefac ( talk) 14:43, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

librarians and archivists do that. Rjensen ( talk) 14:17, 30 December 2019 (UTC)