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