[WikiEN-l] Being bold doesn't work anymore, or why our prose is so bad.

[Anthony]

On 9/8/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/8/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > '''John Smith''' was born on January 1, 1864, and died on January 1, 1899.
>
> Awful. I don't even know why he's notable or what he did.
>
Presumably you knew this before you went to the article about him.