Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
by prodigal_erik on Monday February 14, 2011 @02:59AM
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What that means is that Ruby simply wasn't very notable until 2000. Trying to make obscure things more notable is not a legitimate use of Wikipedia. It's already struggling against a tide of marketing abuse. And there can't possibly be any objective measure today of what independent sources in the future may be writing about.
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Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
by jacques_chester on Monday February 14, 2011 @03:19AM
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> It's already struggling against a tide of marketing abuse.
I'm sure. And that's why deleting the pages of languages with peer-reviewed literature is a vital and useful way to prevent marketers from abusing Wikipedia.
Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
by cabalamat on Monday February 14, 2011 @01:07PM
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> Trying to make obscure things more notable is not a legitimate use of Wikipedia.
Consider a person P who doesn't know about X but would benefit from X if he/she did know about it.
I hypothesize that for each P there is on average more than one X. This suggests to me that making things more notable can aid overall welfare, and therefore ought to be a goal of a universal encyclopedia project.
Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
by MaysonL on Monday February 14, 2011 @04:14AM
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Notable != noticed.
i.e.
Worthy of attention != getting attention.
Ruby was notable, just not noticed.
Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
by prodigal_erik on Monday February 14, 2011 @05:10AM
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Ruby lacked verifiable evidence of notability from independent secondary sources. Wikipedia strenuously avoids making subjective judgment calls about whether anything is notable despite somehow failing to have been noticed.