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* '''Strong delete''' The spiritual successor of Qi and even less notable. There don't seem to be any sources other than those authored by the languages designer. —''[[User:Ruud Koot|Ruud]]'' 10:11, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

*'''Comment.''' Ideally I would argue for merging into the Qi article, but as [[User:Andy Dingley|Andy Dingley]] notes, and I'll extend, ''at best'' wonky licencing has caused these languages to be stillborn. The first version of Qi was GPL, but the author found that unsatisfactory and for the 2nd version made a custom license that e.g. required owning a copy of a page in the Qi book to make closed source commercial use of the language, with the obvious problem of the book eventually going out of print, as it did. Shen was less restrictively licensed, but the license was ''much'' more complex. A recent campaign that netted £2500 to BSD license it didn't actually result in a clean, unmodified BSD license, resulting in hard feelings that further harmed the tiny Shen community. So I can't argue againstfor notability now or in the future :-(, unless someone gets inspired by them and creates another language, which, if it becomes notable, could then include Qi and Shen history in its history. [[User:Hga|Hga]] ([[User talk:Hga|talk]]) 13:59, 1 March 2015 (UTC)