| > Hopefully your professors also drummed into you that anyone can write a paper and send it to a conference Sure anyone can submit, but not anyone can get a paper accepted. Conferences in CS are much more selective than journals. As a Ph.D. student in CS, you should know this. > the kicker is if it actually makes an impact. Isn't that more-or-less the definition of notability? No, notability != impact. My dictionary defines notability as "worthy of attention or notice." And, how do you measure impact anyway? By citations? By peer-reviewed papers? By venue prestige? Seasoned academics cringe when these are used as measures of "impact." You're a Ph.D. student in programming languages. Obscure languages with a handful of users are the norm. When you're doing a literature search on one of these languages, it's helpful when it pops up on Wikipedia. You're doing a disservice to the programming languages research community (of which I am a member) by nominating these articles for deletion. You may be obeying the letter of Wikipedia's policies. Yet, at the same time, you're being disrespectful to your peers. If you want to help the community, instead of nominating these pages for deletion, go to conferences like POPL, ICFP or PLDI and ask folks, "So, what's notable about language X?" They will tell you. Capture that knowledge and then add it to Wikipedia. |