Re: How to write about things that were once notable?
"Fred Bauder" <[email protected]>
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> On 2/6/13, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> by at least occasional publishing of information about in in >> contemporary >> reliable sources. > > That's not strictly tenable, as the range of history is so vast that > contemporary historians only ever write about a small portion of it, > and even then sometimes only briefly. Some stuff is just waiting for > historians to write about it, or not as the case may be. Some stuff > from 150 years ago has been written about 20 years ago, but may not be > returned to by future historians for another 100 years, if at all. > > Carcharoth Nevertheless something that is never mentioned in a nonfiction book or journal article over 250 years could be said to have dropped from the canon of knowledge and could then be archived. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l