[WikiEN-l] Always make articles as complete as possible

[Ray Saintonge]

Stan Shebs wrote:

> Geoffrey Burling wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
>>
>>> There's no guarantee that a proportion of articles slip form the RC and
>>> plunge into the Wikipedia's great information soup.
>>>
>>> This is an observation from perusing the ancient pages list. 
>>
>> Are you talking about pages with content about Ancient History, or
>> pages that have been part of Wikipedia for so long that one could
>> call them ``ancient"? 
>
> I think he means the pages that haven't been touched for a
> long time.
>
> Leave them alone long enough and they *could* become ancient
> history in the other sense ("Many scholars consider Lir and Michael
> to be the same person; although the internal evidence is sometimes
> contradictory, much of the change history was lost in the database
> crash of 2043, and the one surviving backup on CD (in the Vatican
> Library, #3483334) is partially oxidized and has too many bit
> errors to be relied upon.")
>
> :-) 

See also Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz" which established that 
fallout shelters were built as places where the fallouts could seek 
refuge during the collapse of civilization.
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