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All those programming languages actually were deleted. According to the result summary of Why's case, he probably would have been deleted if more "serious" sour
by chc 14y ago
All those programming languages actually were deleted. According to the result summary of Why's case, he probably would have been deleted if more "serious" sources hadn't been added in the interim. It happens.
But no, I am not moving the goalposts. I'm pretty convinced at this point that you've projected other people's goalposts onto my playing field. I'll quote myself again:
> No matter how innocuous the topic, if somebody takes notice of it, you'll often find yourself constantly having to fight random people
> Just Googling around Hacker News, I find a number of innocuous pages whose maintainers have had to defend themselves against deletion.
> Personally, I don't remember what the specific pages were I used to help maintain. I was doing it because I wanted to help out and I saw those pages could use it rather than because I cared a lot about the topics. But I do remember it was unpleasant and I wouldn't want to deal with such people again.
Those have been the goalposts all along. I didn't say anything about getting "shouted off topics." I just said it involves more headaches than I feel it ought to. (Clearly some people like mjn and yourself haven't had that experience, and I'm glad, but that doesn't take the bad taste out of the mouths of people who have.)
- tptacek 14y agoThere were no sources on the original _why article. Sources were added because they had to be. It doesn't mean anything to say "the article would have been deleted if sources hadn't been added"; you can say that about any article in the whole encyclopedia. If the "fight" we're talking about here is (a) one simple sentence stating why the subject is notable and (b) a couple of links, I'm not sure "fight" is the right term.