There's a new remark on the deletion discussion page which makes me think that they are going to delete the page. They aren't accepting that distro presence demonstrates that the project extends far outside of the biases of edbrowse-dev aka us, whose perceptions are clouded by loooove for edbrowse. I'm not sure why usage itself can't be thought of as something that applies "show, don't tell" to a FOSS project. Articles document that something is valuable, while stepping outside of the thing's own medium to talk about it in prose, and then you have to step back in to use it. Retrieving something and trying it out because it's FOSS and you can do this immediately, is a tough, disinterested inline test of whether the thing has merit which takes place without stepping outside to prose and then stepping back in. If the library or application isn't good, you're going to delete it quickly and it will be considered for deletion from the distro. But I guess this point of view is not going to get past the Wikipedia consensus process and the arguments that the members of the deciding committee have been posting for "DELETE", which they then back up with references to Wikipedia's ground rules. I think if we have examples of endless inconsistency and other articles that remain published even though they don't pass a ground rule either, the committee just says "too bad."
So the second half of this for me at least is that we tried. I'm sorry I couldn't make it happen through trying to write them something methodical and clear. If we lose, I don't think it's an important proxy for the value of the work. It's not an omen. I'm sorry that it has that discouraging quality to it but don't let it get you down. As KD noticed while we were working on drafts, hell, duktape doesn't have its own page and they are thriving. So maybe there are plenty of other venues we can use instead, such as all of those Stack Overflow answers where someone says "what are my options for a CLI browser with pretty decent javascript?" And people say edbrowse since that happens to be true.
