On 08.01.2010, 22:42 Tei wrote:
It will be a good idea to pass the memo to the guys that design the notability rules.
http://ioquake3.org/2009/02/20/ioquake3-entry-deleted-from-wikipedia/
Since most (all?) opensource proyects are webonly, and don't get in the press, are on some "obscure" area of the web where something can be wildly popular for these in-the-know, and invisible for these that edit and delete articles.
I mean, I can write a bot to nominate *all* opensource projects articles on wikipedia for speedy deletion, and few ones (maybe 6) will survive that.
<offtopic severity="Will not engage in further flamewar on-list"> FFS, how can one maintain an article without reliable sources? What such an article will look like? Enough article-count-stacking, emphasis on quality, even if that means systemic bias. Wikipedia is not a registry of open-source projects. And those projects that an average user might search for tend to have some sources, guess why?
As of counter examples of fancruft, there's one 100% recipe: remove all in-universe crap and slap {{db-empty}} if there's nothing left. </offtopic>