Neil Van Dyke <neil@...> writes: > > The obvious response to a Wikipedia editor asserting that Racket is "not > very notable" is to say "citation needed". :)
Mmmm... one could argue that it is impossible to prove non-existence of references... :P > But seriously, although it sounds like the editor's rationale is tinged > with opinion, it might also be the true that the page arguably doesn't > really belong in Wikipedia, even if you see an analogous page for > Haskell. Perhaps you can rethink the page, or someone can contribute > comparative discussion of why the examples are significant in a PL > context. I couldn't make a good enough case for those examples, myself. I see your point, but as stated in the AfD, the same pattern is repeated for other computer languages (not just Haskell). I could understand the policy if it was universal, not conditioned to the popularity (disguised as notability) of a language. Besides that, IMHO, I do think it is useful for readers interested in knowing more about a programming language (say, before deciding if they're going to invest some time learning it or not) to see actual examples of this kind, without leaving wikipedia, if only to get a taste of what can be done and how code looks like... even more in Racket's case, where it can be strange for a newcomer to understand why code can look so different... I think that's the kind of reader who would search for Racket in the Wikipedia. That, like the name of the page, is of course open for discussion... but I do not think the particular reasons given for the deletion proposal make much sense. > It looks like you've done a lot of work to provide some context and > narrative for the examples from the home page. If Wikipedia doesn't use > that, perhaps there's some other place it could be used. In fact, since I am new to Racket, I expected the article to be a starting point... that is why most of the examples com from the main page... but of course, that's only possible if it's not deleted. Well, thanks and cheers! :) _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
