Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
by sedachv on Monday February 14, 2011 @03:38PM
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There's lots of pages on Wikipedia that are basically self-promotion, or descriptions of inconsequential "news" events, or "micro-celebrities," or moderately rich people, or other stuff that will have no relevance in 10 years, except to people with OCPD who like to hoard information.
Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
by abstractbill on Monday February 14, 2011 @04:02PM
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You're arguing that many pages in Wikipedia aren't useful. I don't think anyone is debating that, but are these pages actually harmful?
Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
by dwc on Monday February 14, 2011 @09:09PM
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Yes, some are harmful in that promotion disguised as objectivity is misleading.
That's a whole separate issue from notability, though. On this and many other issues I think the notability bar is set too high. I'm much rather see a wikipedia page on an obscure language than not, and I have read a few in the past.
As far as I can tell, the only positive contribution that deletionism makes to the welfare of humanity is it makes individual deletionists happy when they destroy other people's work.
I wonder if anyone has done research into possible links between deletionism and mental disorders such as OCPD?