[clug] Wikipedia and Deletionism

Ivan Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 16:43:09 MDT 2010


On 25 March 2010 07:59, Paul Wayper <paulway at mabula.net> wrote:
> Looks like a lot of these are spurious - the reason given for deleting SaMBa,
> for instance, is:
>
> This software is not notable. It doesnt run on my windows computer, and so
> most of America has not heard of it or used it
>
> It's a "joke".  Ignore it.

The rationale is probably to do with the latest DWM deletion debate
(that is, open source projects' wikipedia pages get deleted because
they are not "notable" in the sense that the average Joe Blow hasn't
heard of them).

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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