I don't think you need a *notable* source for all information, though, just a reliable one. If the project officially shut down, a notice from the project itself should suffice, right?
I suspect in most of these cases, though, the project never officially died, just petered out. If the project's software gives such a thing, you can cite the information its edit history shows: "As of <date>, the last contribution to the project was back in <long-ago date>." or "from a high of <edit rate> in <long ago>, the rate of contributions has slowed to <rate> as of <now>." If the site is gone, can you cite e.g. the Internet Archive's last cached date as an approximate for when it vanished? Or DNS registration records, if the name expired? -Matt On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a problem. Information about the current status of these projects > may have fallen off so much that little or nothing can be obtained from a > notable source. So you are left with the splash and little else. No > obituary available. > > Fred > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Citizendium#So_what_and_how_do_we_write_about_this_sort_of_thing.3F > > > > How to write about things like [[Citizendium]], [[Conservapedia]], > > [[Veropedia]] - things that were notable at the time and got lots of > > press coverage and hence articles, and which readers may well want to > > read about into the future - but which have fallen out of notice and > > so their decline (and, in the case of Veropedia, death) got no > > coverage and hence we can't answer the reader question "so, whatever > > did happen to X?" > > > > (Anyone who wants to reply saying "Citizendium is alive and well and > > will rise again!" or similar needs to check the most recent > > WP:RS-suitable coverage from 2011: > > > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/10/five-year-old-wikipedia-fork-is-dead-in-the-water/ > > and particularly the comments, where people have never heard of this > > thing and in two weeks no-one even defends the project.) > > > > > > - d. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
