Tarquin wrote:

Children are abducted all over the world.

Very true. That's why an article on [[children abduction]] is a very valid topic.

Just because the US media gave it so much coverage does not make it worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia which should be taking the long-term view.

Eh? Tens of millions of people were captivated by the story. /That/ story is thus something we should have in Wikipedia. Should we also not have articles on popular movies and books? In the long run what is popular today and in the media will be obscure in decades hence. Wikipedia is not paper so let's distill knowledge about these things. If anything it would be a way to gauge what was important in days past.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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