[WikiEN-l] Eternal Ephemeral

Fri Oct 31 00:19:02 UTC 2003

tarquin wrote:

> So can I write about the cat that was stuck up a tree in the next 
> street from me? The local press gave in plenty of coverage!

I think there's *some* threshold below which it's too trivial.  But 
something avidly followed by 50-100 million people is definitely above 
the threshold.  Heck, there's probably more people who followed the 
Elizabeth Smart case than there are people who follow some of the more 
obscure Australian football sides, yet we don't insist *those* are just 
media-manufactured nonsense we don't need to write about.

-Mark