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Lacks reliable independent secondary sources to establish notability as required by [[WP:GNG]]. Every single source offered is [[WP:PRIMARY]] and thus unsuitable. Googling turned up nothing useful. This article has been tagged for COI, notability and primary sources for almost 3 years. [[User:Msnicki|Msnicki]] ([[User talk:Msnicki|talk]]) 10:27, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
* '''keep''' Shen is an important step in language development, even if now a deliberately unimportant language. It would be a negative effect on WP (Shen doesn't care) to remove coverage of it from WP.
: Sourcing is awkward as, as with so many modern topics in CS, that coverage is mostly in the sort of on-line sources that WP has set itself against (although this never seems to limit articles on web comics). Mike Fogus' blog http://blog.fogus.me/?s=shen explains some of the Shen issues and Fogus ought to be considered as RS for [[functional language]]s.
: The article here is currently poor. It fails to explain the major limitation on Shen, its licensing. Tarver's strict policy on licensing against forking development has seriously limited Shen development by others, or in other directions. As a result, pretty much all coverage of Shen will be from 2011 and it's a dead language beyond that point. IMHO, the licence restrictions killed the project. However it's not a non-notable corpse. Coverage of developments in programming language theory should include [[Qi (programming language)|Qi]] and Shen. [[User:Andy Dingley|Andy Dingley]] ([[User talk:Andy Dingley|talk]]) 11:08, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
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