On Wed, 30 May 2007 12:26:21 +0100, "Violet/Riga" violetriga@gmail.com wrote:
But try and find them from multiple sources two months down the line - not so easy. However, news stories remain.
Not a terribly good argument - the source is identical. On Wednesday 30 May, 2007, the weather in London was overcast with light rain. Source: The Times, BBC, Capital Radio, Radio London, Evening Standard... all of which will are citeable as sources, some of which will be available online and perhaps indexed.
If we could drop the hyperbole for a minute, Doc has a serious and valid point. News stories about an incident do not make the victims of that incident notable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladbroke_Grove_rail_crash - very notable. Survivors? Mostly not.
Let's draw a distinction between information and knowledge; information about the dates of birth of victims does not increase our knowledge of the world we live in, does it? In many cases merging the significant cases to the relevant incident is a good start. In others... well, maybe we should leave some of this to WikiNews.
Guy (JzG)