[WikiEN-l] Eternal Ephemeral

Thu Oct 30 20:20:29 UTC 2003

tarquin wrote:
> Do any UK writers wish to create articles on [[Milly Downling]], or the 
> [[Soham girls]]? Both those cases got plenty of media coverage here.

I, for one, would be fascinated to read such an article.

Perhaps it's very uncool to not look down my nose at media sensations,
but I found the Elizabeth Smart case to be fascinating from many
perspectives, and followed it quite avidly at the time.  Learning more
about similar cases in other countries (even if the similarity is
primarily in the media sensationalism) would be valuable to me.

> >In science and technology there are any number of attempts that might 
> >have worked but were superceded by a more practical idea that 
> >wasdiscovered before the old plan could be put into operation.  Thus 
> >the Collins International Telegraph Company scheme to lay a telegraph 
> >wire from New York to London via Alaska and Siberia, quashed by the 
> >undersea cable laid by the "Great Eastern".  Also the 1920s plan to 
> >put a series of floating airports as refueling stops across the 
> >Atlantic, which quickly lost its appeal after Lindbergh's famous 
> >flight.
> >
> Now *that* I would find interesting!

Eh, I guess.

My point is that lots and lots of things are interesting to only a
small number of people.  Wikipedia need not avoid those things, so
long as there is confirmability.

Now, later on, when there's a formal 'drive to 1.0', some of those
things may need to be left out, assuming that there are space
constraints on 1.0 (for print).

--Jimbo