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Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia by halostatue on Monday February 14, 2011 @01:07AM (#2215534)
I could be wrong, but the Wikipedia admins aren't responsible for creating pages or accepting pages. That's an "editor", e.g., a standard user. Admins can make pages, but I guarantee it was an interested editor/user who created the Alice ML page, not an admin acting as an admin.

Still, Wikipedia's deletionism is arrant nonsense up with which we should not put.

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Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia by derleth on Monday February 14, 2011 @01:21AM (#2215591)
> Still, Wikipedia's deletionism is arrant nonsense up with which we should not put.

Everyone's a deletionist about something.

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Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia by mkr-hn on Monday February 14, 2011 @06:43AM (#2216391)
I'm generally in favor of keeping any article that's not spam or blatant promotion.

It's an extremely small amount of hard drive space (and becomes less of a burden as they replace drives with increasingly larger ones over the years). At worst, the article sits there unnoticed and unlinked until someone finds a use for it.

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