I don't think you need a *notable* source for all information, though, just
a reliable one. If the project officially shut down, a notice from the
project itself should suffice, right?
I suspect in most of these cases, though, the project never officially
died, just petered out. If the project's software gives such a thing, you
can cite the information its edit history shows: "As of <date>, the last
contribution to the project was back in <long-ago date>." or "from a high
of <edit rate> in <long ago>, the rate of contributions has slowed to
<rate> as of <now>."
If the site is gone, can you cite e.g. the Internet Archive's last cached
date as an approximate for when it vanished? Or DNS registration records,
if the name expired?
-Matt
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
It's a problem. Information about the current
status of these projects
may have fallen off so much that little or nothing can be obtained from a
notable source. So you are left with the splash and little else. No
obituary available.
Fred
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Citizendium#So_what_and_how_do_we_write_…
> How to write about things like
[[Citizendium]], [[Conservapedia]],
> [[Veropedia]] - things that were notable at the time and got lots of
> press coverage and hence articles, and which readers may well want to
> read about into the future - but which have fallen out of notice and
> so their decline (and, in the case of Veropedia, death) got no
> coverage and hence we can't answer the reader question "so, whatever
> did happen to X?"
> (Anyone who wants to reply saying
"Citizendium is alive and well and
> will rise again!" or similar needs to check the most recent
> WP:RS-suitable coverage from 2011:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/10/five-year-old-wikipedia-fork-is-…
> and particularly the comments, where people have never heard of this
> thing and in two weeks no-one even defends the project.)
> - d.
>
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