Ray Saintonge wrote:
Stan Shebs wrote:
Geoffrey Burling wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
There's no guarantee that a proportion of articles slip form the RC and plunge into the Wikipedia's great information soup.
This is an observation from perusing the ancient pages list.
Are you talking about pages with content about Ancient History, or pages that have been part of Wikipedia for so long that one could call them ``ancient"?
I think he means the pages that haven't been touched for a long time.
Leave them alone long enough and they *could* become ancient history in the other sense ("Many scholars consider Lir and Michael to be the same person; although the internal evidence is sometimes contradictory, much of the change history was lost in the database crash of 2043, and the one surviving backup on CD (in the Vatican Library, #3483334) is partially oxidized and has too many bit errors to be relied upon.")
:-)
See also Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz" which established that fallout shelters were built as places where the fallouts could seek refuge during the collapse of civilization. Ec
hmmmm :P