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.
In science and technology there are any number of attempts that might have worked but were superceded by a more practical idea that wasdiscovered before the old plan could be put into operation. Thus the Collins International Telegraph Company scheme to lay a telegraph wire from New York to London via Alaska and Siberia, quashed by the undersea cable laid by the "Great Eastern". Also the 1920s plan to put a series of floating airports as refueling stops across the Atlantic, which quickly lost its appeal after Lindbergh's famous flight.
Now *that* I would find interesting!