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by JanneVee 1422 days ago
It is things like this that has reduced the usefulness of wikipedia for me personally. I wasn't aware of the whole "notability deletionists" before I tried to look up the Rockstar programming language when discussing esoteric programming languages a while back. I knew that there was a entry there it was a nice short introduction to it but it was deleted by these people. In one way it is piece of "programmer culture" that was removed but at the other hand it is an esoteric programming language so it might not be "notable" almost by definition.

This article highlights the slippery slope of it. It is one thing to remove the esoteric language that nobody is seriously using but has a little cultural significance except for a small number of programmer nerds like myself. This composer is actually notable in comparison. Who gets to decide notability? What is next? Are we going to be removing lore from small ethnic groups because there isn't some academic reference to it and someone dutifully transcribed oral tradition and translated a language which only a few speak... No not notable...