[headslap]
The light goes on slowly.
So this "purge" was broad brush.
I'm not a "wikipedian", just a heavy use, and regular supporter. (IF
THAT MATTERS)
Rule #1, don't break stuff.
I thought I must be doing something wrong that I can no longer find
pages like "EBCDIC_1047". But maybe those are part of the purge?
Not sure if "37-2" deserves its own page. Maybe. CERTAINLY the story
should be told, so maybe yes.
But the loss of these *other* pages is B-A-D. ("B" for "broken", and see
rule #1.)
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On 9/15/20 6:52 PM, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
> On 9/15/2020 6:08 PM, Rick Troth wrote:
>> Same then goes for the square brackets (and their mis-mapped
>> counterparts). IBM introduced Codepage 1047 which GETS BRACKETS RIGHT. I
>> forget, as I write this, if CP 1047 gets not/circumflex right and I'm
>> having trouble pulling the codepages out of Wikipedia. But CP 1047 is
>> GOOD. Basically, CP 1047 is IBM listening and embracing "CP 37 v2"
>> because they had to.
> You can't pull them out of Wikipedia anymore because they were deleted.
> I forgot to include the link before to the (uncompleted) project to move
> them to Wikibooks:
>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Computing#EBCDIC_transwiki_to_WikiBooks
> But the answer, as the PIPE XLATE doc tells us, is that 1047 has
> not/caret backwards from 037-2 (hence my altered signature).
>
> That's the part I know. What I'm hoping somebody else can provide is
> any published references about the whole debacle, and support in the
> deletion review if you agree that restoring the page is warranted.
>
> ¬^R
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