Removed? (Wikipedia deletionism)

[spir]

On 02/15/2011 01:36 PM, Aaron Smith wrote:
> spir Wrote:
>
>> On 02/15/2011 02:25 AM, bearophile wrote:
>>>> D is much much more notable than Nemerle, Alice ML, Pure, Nosica, Kiev, Einstein, Alma-0, Joy, Zonnon, Y, Cat, Fancy, Ambi, Ptolemy, Mythryl, COMIT, Ioke, EASY, Aikido, A+, Adenine, Afnix, Bsisith, ChinesePython, AngelScript, Algae, Agena, Taxi, Inger, Iota, Jot, Agora, Falcon, Averest, Lava, Factor, Glagol. These all have been deleted by the same editor.
>>> Nemerle, Factor, and few others need to be put back in Wikipedia.
>>
>> The issue is: who judges what needs to be put? If we agree the notoriety
>> criterion is not only not good enough, but simply bad, in numerous domains (not
>> only PLs), then what can be used? What criterion can be used, especially, to
>> /remove/ articles?
>> Possibly the most interesting&  earth-shaking language of all ever invented is
>> among these ones. It is obviously hard to find one criterion, in any domain
>> involving design, creativity and/or research, don't you think?
>
> If you're actively participating in language development, you should at least know Factor, Nemerle, and Alice ML. The author of Cat also has a strong online presence although he's not widely considered a genius unlike the authors of Factor and LuaJIT and Walter Bright. Slava Pestov is a real world hardcore badass developer and his Factor is *The* stack language to rule them all.

I do agree (and have actually read docs by Slave Pestov); but how does this 
/judgement/ of yours help and solving the issue? Or do you mean you should be 
the one deciding? If we ask true language enthusiasts, they would see no good 
reason in removing any language from the above list, don't you think (aside 
lang wars)? The same applies to the hundreds of articles about pokemons. And 
their fans are as right as us. And they can more easily point to external 
references than us ;-)

Denis
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