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I would love to do that! The problem is that for the articles I nominated, no citations exist :(

oconnore 16y ago
That statement is false. Take Factor for example. It has been hosted at several conferences, has an active community of users, and has an academic paper published in ACM. http://factorcode.org/littledan/dls.pdf http://factorcode.org/littledan/dls.pdf Perhaps what you meant to say is that no citations exist that meet your own apparently arbitrary standards of approval? Edit: It appears that it was another individual who recommended wiki/Factor for deletion. I apologize for my inaccurate accusation, but in my opinion that still does not excuse recommending the removal of Nemerle.
- jedsmith 16y ago
  Or that he didn't spend enough time looking: > It takes me but a few minutes to figure out whether I am going to nominate an article for deletion. A single hit that looks like it might possibly be a reliable source and I'm outta there. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215437 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215437 Reassuring description of the process, there...
- chrismonsanto 16y ago
  But I didn't nominate Factor for deletion...
  - oconnore 16y ago
    I apologize for the confusion, but that still doesn't change much. See these papers on Nemerle: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/sscli2005/pacholski-moskal.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/sscli2005/pachols... http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/moskal/pdf/msc.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/moskal/pdf/msc...
Locke1689 16y ago
Ouch, this is really sad because it took me ~10 seconds on Google Scholar and I found the Nemerle papers. I'm on your side too (if a language seriously has no users and no publications, why have an article on it), but your research skills are giving us grad students a bad name ;)
ubernostrum 16y ago
One suggestion I'd make (following up on my directing you to WP:POINT on your talk page) would be to research the history of Improv's famous spree, wherein he speedy-deleted a bunch of articles on different brands of cookies. You may learn some useful things about when to be strict on policy and when not to.

That statement is false. Take Factor for example. It has been hosted at several conferences, has an active community of users, and has an academic paper published in ACM. http://factorcode.org/littledan/dls.pdf http://factorcode.org/littledan/dls.pdf Perhaps what you meant to say is that no citations exist that meet your own apparently arbitrary standards of approval? Edit: It appears that it was another individual who recommended wiki/Factor for deletion. I apologize for my inaccurate accusation, but in my opinion that still does not excuse recommending the removal of Nemerle.

jedsmith 16y ago
Or that he didn't spend enough time looking: > It takes me but a few minutes to figure out whether I am going to nominate an article for deletion. A single hit that looks like it might possibly be a reliable source and I'm outta there. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215437 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215437 Reassuring description of the process, there...
chrismonsanto 16y ago
But I didn't nominate Factor for deletion...
- oconnore 16y ago
  I apologize for the confusion, but that still doesn't change much. See these papers on Nemerle: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/sscli2005/pacholski-moskal.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/sscli2005/pachols... http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/moskal/pdf/msc.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/moskal/pdf/msc...

Locke1689 16y ago

Ouch, this is really sad because it took me ~10 seconds on Google Scholar and I found the Nemerle papers. I'm on your side too (if a language seriously has no users and no publications, why have an article on it), but your research skills are giving us grad students a bad name ;)

ubernostrum 16y ago

One suggestion I'd make (following up on my directing you to WP:POINT on your talk page) would be to research the history of Improv's famous spree, wherein he speedy-deleted a bunch of articles on different brands of cookies. You may learn some useful things about when to be strict on policy and when not to.