Re: [WikiEN-l] Notability policies for articles on open-source software

2009-04-06 Thread Jay Litwyn
"Dan Dascalescu" wrote in message news:3561cc6d0903280046y63c1eae4y5b2c48d230752...@mail.gmail.com... (...) > [[Wikipedia:Inherent notability]]? (...) How about [#Redirect http://bugzilla.sourceforge.net/wiki/WHATEVER], an external redirection? ___

Re: [WikiEN-l] Notability policies for articles on open-source software

2009-03-28 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Dan Dascalescu wrote: > Among those deletions there have been cases of articles on active > software projects, with large user bases, being deleted on grounds of > lack of notability (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foswiki]]). Oh, ick. That has several problems, some

[WikiEN-l] Notability policies for articles on open-source software

2009-03-28 Thread Dan Dascalescu
There has been a recent intensification in the trend of deleting software-related articles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Software). I think this is a useful enterprise, in order to declutter Wikipedia of dead projects or software with very little information t