Many of the definitions I found so far explicitly include that to reach an "endemic state", the reproduction number of a disease must be around 1. This implies

Many of the definitions I found so far explicitly include that to reach an "endemic state", the reproduction number of a disease must be around 1. This implies that local outbreaks may still happen but will eventually burn out with no additional intervention, which characterizes the endemic state. I don't think it is fair to attack an article on semantics.