Mark Richards wrote:
Deletion seems to have stepped up a gear recently, with over 70 new listings just today. Is it just me, or is this spiralling out of control? Most of these are verifiable things that folks don't think are 'notable'.
That's a fairly large misstatement of the actual situation, seeing that virtually all of the "over 70 new listings" are a list of over 70 esoteric programming languages listed for VFD by one person.
And given that the vote is overwhelmingly to KEEP them at the moment, I'm not sure what exactly is "spiralling out of control".
My suggestion: calm down, and if a user is repeatedly submitting articles for VFD for which the consensus is to keep, have a quiet word to them about it.
Now, as always, if you ignore huge statistic-skewing events like these esoteric programming languages, most of the stuff which is listed on VFD is deleted, by near-unanimous consent, because it simply does not fit the community standards of what Wikipedia is for.
Cheers! David...