Tony Sidaway wrote:
This is all to the good. We *need* to give deletionists something to look forward to. The timelessness problem will be solved because Wikipedia is not a timeless publication, but an organically growing one. Seriously, though, if any twentieth century works of literature or film are studied in 500 years, someone will have to compile notes for the students so they'll know what Bridget Jones (or Harry Potter, or Homer Simpson) is talking about. There are academics who spend their entire working lives studying 80 million year old coproliths, so Bridget Jones' Big Knickers could well be on some future academic's literary excavation list.
Linking coproliths and Bridget Jones' knickers in the same sentence is ominous. Cf. the interpretation of fallout shelters by future archaeologists in Walter Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz".
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