Over a hundred years after Thomas Crapper plied his trade as a plumber
his name and especially the first four letters of it are still in
daily use. But I would be surprised if in twenty years time santorum
is still used in the sense Dan Savage intended, and I hope that at
some point in the future Wikipedia will come to the view that
notability can sometimes be transient. Of course there is the
possibility that this neologism has more staying power than I thought,
but in any event Mr Santorum is better off with articles like
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_84/-203455-1.html and a neutrally
written Wikipedia article explaining that his name was used for this
neologism as an attack on him rather than just leaving it to sites
that explain the word without the context of why it was coined.
As for the Google rank, I don't know how search engines will work in
years to come, but I would be surprised if they didn't consider such
things as when a webpage was last updated.
WSC
On 3 June 2011 16:28, Ken Arromdee <arromdee(a)rahul.net> wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, WereSpielChequers wrote:
8 letters, three syllables doth not a four letter
word make, and the
term itself is somewhat more obscure. I suspect that unless further
flames are added to the fire, such as it provoking a sea change in
Wikipedia policy, it will fade into obscurity.
How's it going to fall itno obscurity? 20 years from now a search for his
name will still bring up our article about shit. Unless we do something to
avoid an overinflated Google rank for the article, it can never fade away,
ever, because of us.
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