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Interesting that Wikipedia has no entry for RethinkDB. I do see that RethinkDB has some "Overview" and "FAQ" links on its website. However, when I encounter a
by StevePerkins 12y ago
Interesting that Wikipedia has no entry for RethinkDB.
I do see that RethinkDB has some "Overview" and "FAQ" links on its website. However, when I encounter a new technology, I like to read its Wikipedia entry first. Wikipedia is usually more impartial, informative, and actually makes it easier to get a high-level sense of a technology than the tech's own website in most cases. This has grown more and more true over the past five or so years, as even developer-facing websites have devolved into "startup-y" marketing nonsense.
I wonder if there WAS a Wikipedia entry, but it's been deleted by some moderator with an axe to grind? I personally haven't contributed in years due to how unpleasant it is to add new content through all of the Wiki-lawyering. I've also noticed that 5 years ago, when you did a Google search you could rely on the Wikipedia entry being one of the top 2 or 3 results. Lately I see more and more instances where I have to scroll to the second or third pages of results to see a Wikipedia link.
Anyhoo... apologies for the tangential aside. I'm just wondering whether the lack of a Wikipedia entry says more about RethinkDB or about Wikipedia?
- coffeemug 12y agoSlava @ Rethink here. There used to be a few Wikipedia articles that kept getting deleted. I don't really understand the Wikipedia guidelines on this, but I don't worry about it too much. As RethinkDB grows the article will get added back, and it will get harder to make an argument that it should be deleted.
- tptacek 12y agoThere should be zero trouble getting a RethinkDB article written now, because it takes all of 5 seconds with NEWS.GOOGLE.COM to find reliable sources to back a notability claim. I can't find evidence of a deleted Rethink article in Wikipedia, but didn't look hard.
- pests 12y agoIts listed right on the article's page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RethinkDB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RethinkDB Reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_... (G11. Unambiguous advertising or promotion)
- tptacek 12y agoWeird, I tried searching and didn't get it (or the warning not to create a new page for it). Is there an archived copy of the original page? It's probably best to start with a stub page that contains no advocacy for Rethink and minimal information, and then grow it over time.
- eeZi 12y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RethinkDB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RethinkDB > 17:41, 16 August 2013 Alex Shih (talk | contribs) deleted page RethinkDB (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)
- ahoge 12y agoThere was an article in the past. Well, that's just how Wikipedia is. The Node.js article, for example, has only been undeleted by an admin because someone mentioned it in some "Wikipedia is lame" thread on Reddit.
- sandstrom 12y agoI've added a (very) brief article, as a starting point. Would be great if others can add additional information! I guess there is a higher chance of it not getting deleted if there are a bunch of edits/additions made by different people/accounts. So please, add to it :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RethinkDB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RethinkDB