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by chrismonsanto
5601 days ago
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So many people create pet programming languages and add them to Wikipedia that the PL lists and categories are essentially useless. Most of the languages I propose for deletion have almost no information available about them, and therefore, one can't write a useful Wikipedia article about them. More information isn't necessarily better. Anything I am not 95% sure about I add a notability tag to or simply leave alone. There are a number of articles that I did in fact find interesting citations for while trying to decide notability. Napier88 is a good example of such a language -- the papers on it received hundreds of citations, yet I had never heard of the language. I've been working on an entire rewrite of Napier88 in my spare time, which has understandably become even more "spare" recently :) |
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OK, so some of them might not even pass my standard of notability (which would be almost embarrassingly lax).
But it strikes me that you're using notability to solve a user interface issue -- that you find it difficult to navigate the programming language section.
More generally, it strikes me as horribly inefficient to rely on what one might call "outrage-driven notability" to correct for what were, you may now realise, erroneous selections for deletion.
Maybe I'm a dolt for blaming you; you're acting rationally within a broken system.