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

Anthony <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:57 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?"

If readers continue to want to read about it, then it continues to be
notable, no?

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