> On 2/6/13, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > >> by at least occasional publishing of information about in in >> contemporary >> reliable sources. > > That's not strictly tenable, as the range of history is so vast that > contemporary historians only ever write about a small portion of it, > and even then sometimes only briefly. Some stuff is just waiting for > historians to write about it, or not as the case may be. Some stuff > from 150 years ago has been written about 20 years ago, but may not be > returned to by future historians for another 100 years, if at all. > > Carcharoth
Nevertheless something that is never mentioned in a nonfiction book or journal article over 250 years could be said to have dropped from the canon of knowledge and could then be archived. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
