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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