Re: How to write about things that were once notable?

It's a problem. Information about the current status of these projects
may have fallen off so much that little or nothing can be obtained from a
notable source. So you are left with the splash and little else. No
obituary available.

Fred

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Citizendium#So_what_and_how_do_we_write_about_this_sort_of_thing.3F
>
> How to write about things like [[Citizendium]], [[Conservapedia]],
> [[Veropedia]] - things that were notable at the time and got lots of
> press coverage and hence articles, and which readers may well want to
> read about into the future - but which have fallen out of notice and
> so their decline (and, in the case of Veropedia, death) got no
> coverage and hence we can't answer the reader question "so, whatever
> did happen to X?"
>
> (Anyone who wants to reply saying "Citizendium is alive and well and
> will rise again!" or similar needs to check the most recent
> WP:RS-suitable coverage from 2011:
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/10/five-year-old-wikipedia-fork-is-dead-in-the-water/
> and particularly the comments, where people have never heard of this
> thing and in two weeks no-one even defends the project.)
>
>
> - d.
>
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