[WikiEN-l] Eternal Ephemeral

Thu Oct 30 20:08:29 UTC 2003

tarquin wrote:

>
>
> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>> Articles about Jessica McClure, Bridey Murphey and [[Mike (headless 
>> chicken)]]  are all perfectly appropriate. 
>
>
>
> So what happens when readers from other countries write up articles on 
> every single kidnap victim?
> Do any UK writers wish to create articles on [[Milly Downling]], or 
> the [[Soham girls]]? Both those cases got plenty of media coverage here.

You mean they haven't been written?? Pretty regularly I see articles with
mystifying titles in recent changes, click on them out of curiousity, and
voila, sensational kidnap or murder victim in the UK.

More than a little of the ancient history that we know has been 
painstakingly
reconstructed from reports of sensational but ephemeral events; those 
reports
often give us bits of cultural insight that the ancient scholars didn't
understand well enough to describe in their encyclopedias and histories.

Stan