On 08.01.2010, 22:42 Tei wrote:

> It will be a good idea to pass the memo to the guys that design the
> notability rules.

> http://ioquake3.org/2009/02/20/ioquake3-entry-deleted-from-wikipedia/

> Since most (all?) opensource proyects are webonly, and don't get in
> the press, are on some "obscure" area of the web where something can
> be wildly popular for these in-the-know, and invisible for these that
> edit and delete articles.

> I mean, I can write a bot to nominate *all* opensource projects
> articles on wikipedia for speedy deletion, and few ones (maybe 6) will
> survive that.

<offtopic severity="Will not engage in further flamewar on-list">
FFS, how can one maintain an article without reliable sources? What
such an article will look like? Enough article-count-stacking,
emphasis on quality, even if that means systemic bias. Wikipedia is not
a registry of open-source projects. And those projects that an average
user might search for tend to have some sources, guess why?

As of counter examples of fancruft, there's one 100% recipe: remove
all in-universe crap and slap {{db-empty}} if there's nothing left.
</offtopic>

-- 
Best regards,
  Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])


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