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I think the open source projects just have more people who would take notice and revert the vandalism of the filthy deletionists.

• spxdcz 16y ago
  Not in this case: both open source and proprietary listings tend to notice + argue their cases, if they're flagged for deletion. It just seems that proprietary systems get a harder deal of it. For example, check out the history of the PivotX listing mentioned in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PivotX&action=history http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PivotX&action=... - although it was flagged as 'non notable', it got away with staying on the list just by deleting the 'spam' flag and saying 'but we're not a blatant advert' (but not dealing with the notability argument at all). After that, nothing has been said. Compare that with the attention that Ektron (a well known proprietary system) received: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ektron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...