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

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Matthew Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think you need a *notable* source for all information, though, just
> a reliable one.  If the project officially shut down, a notice from the
> project itself should suffice, right?
>
> I suspect in most of these cases, though, the project never officially
> died, just petered out.  If the project's software gives such a thing, you
> can cite the information its edit history shows: "As of <date>, the last
> contribution to the project was back in <long-ago date>." or "from a high
> of <edit rate> in <long ago>, the rate of contributions has slowed to
> <rate> as of <now>."
>
> If the site is gone, can you cite e.g. the Internet Archive's last cached
> date as an approximate for when it vanished?  Or DNS registration records,
> if the name expired?
>
> -Matt
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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