There it is, right? Seven days and twenty years, gone. To quote, it is "the slow decline, the emptying out, and the long, long process of forgetting".
Wikipedia's deletion proposals are the online equivalent of putting a small poster on a village noticeboard and being surprised that the entire world doesn't see it.
It isn't Wikipedia's job nor mission to remember. The Internet Archive took on that mission. Hence why you can still find the article there. The article isn't gone. It's a bit less accessible. I love them both, but they work in very different ways.
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There it is, right? Seven days and twenty years, gone. To quote, it is "the slow decline, the emptying out, and the long, long process of forgetting".
Wikipedia's deletion proposals are the online equivalent of putting a small poster on a village noticeboard and being surprised that the entire world doesn't see it.
It's disgraceful.
It isn't Wikipedia's job nor mission to remember. The Internet Archive took on that mission. Hence why you can still find the article there. The article isn't gone. It's a bit less accessible. I love them both, but they work in very different ways.