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Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia by sedachv on Monday February 14, 2011 @03:38PM (#2218540)
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.
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Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia by abstractbill on Monday February 14, 2011 @04:02PM (#2218651)
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?
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Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia by dwc on Monday February 14, 2011 @09:09PM (#2219757)
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.

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Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia by sedachv on Monday February 14, 2011 @11:31PM (#2220148)
I like to click on links in Wikipedia articles to find out more about things related to the main article. I consider wasting my time harmful.
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