| The whole concept of "notability" in Wikipedia-land is subjective as hell. Whether your article makes it in is simply a matter of rolling the dice the first time you submit the article. I created an article for NodeBB, a piece of forum software used worldwide by companies small and large (including several triple A gaming companies). We got AfD'd, and now every time someone creates an article for NodeBB, the AfD is brought up and the entire discussion ends as soon as it has begun. We even created an article the _suggested_ way, by submitting a draft for review. It got reviewed alright... instant rejection because they felt it looked like an ad. We made changes, but nobody ever took a second look at the article. Of course, a number of defunct open-source (and some proprietary) forum softwares with zero sources are still allowed on Wikipedia, simply due to the fact that they made it through when nobody was looking :) One could argue that we shouldn't be writing our own articles (and they'd be right), so we just quietly accepted our judgement and market NodeBB based on the merits of the software, instead of whether it appears in some arbitrary ranking of forum software. That said, it'd still be nice if we were listed in the Wikipedia list of forum softwares.... _sigh_, a guy can dream. |