Notability is *supposed* to be timeless, not perishable, let's recall. DG raises an interesting writing issue, nevertheless. Remember Pownce? This is the startup over which Andrew Lih went ballistic - with risk of distortion in my hindsight, the point at the time was that Lih thought a press release about a Silicon Valley startup was quite enough for an encyclopedia article, while other disagreed. As things now stand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce tells us it went down one of the startup routes, for a lifespan of around 18 months. That article seems fine, except that "The developers have also created" should now read "The developers also created". Pownce is clearly a footnote by now. One of WP's purposes is to host such footnotes. So the writing issue boils down to reducing froth to footnote coverage. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
