There's one point worth mentioning here: your actual suggested policy (found at the end of that p.) is:
While maintaining articles on FOSS software may be desirable, at the same time Wikipedia is not a directory, and only active FOSS projects with 3rd party references should be listed. Abandoned FOSS projects may be kept if more stringent standards of notability are met.
I think the distinction between presently active and cancelled projects to be a very bad way to go. If there is any one principle that has been helpful in helping articles on less popular subjects at Wikipedia, its that notability does not go away.
It might even be particularly perverse for this particular topic. There is usually no great difficulty finding information on the web about currently active software projects. It's the ceased ones where Wikipedia can be the only accessible source of information. At any rate, I at least became first interested in Wikipedia for information on extinct or almost extinct programming languages.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Dan Dascalescu ddascalescu+wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Relisting in hope to gain more discussion.
Wikipedia is currently missing a standard of notability for free open source software. I wrote a proposal at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability/RFC:Notability_of_free_ope... and would like to know your opinion.
Thank you, Dan Dascalescu [[User:Dandv]]
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