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

> 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?

No, notablity was established by the amount of information published in
significant reliable sources. Reader, and editor, interest is irrelevant.
However, we do need a mechanism for weeding out information which is no
longer of interest to readers or editors. Perhaps this could be one
criteria justifying deletion, or perhaps some other form of archiving. We
could maintain an archive of deprecated subjects separate from the main
body of articles. Libraries do this, and call it weeding.

Fred



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