Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shen (programming language): Difference between revisions

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::"''Furthermore it has transitioned to a BSD license.''" Operative word there is 'a', as in "a BSD licence", [http://www.shenlanguage.org/license.pdf see for yourself one version of the modifications] (the master license.pdf as distributed by the sources hasn't actually been changed since the first release, but it's still modified in the same style). It does no one any good to pretend this is a clean BSD license when anyone can see that's not the case by downloading it. And my greater point that wonky licencing caused Qi and Shen to be stillborn still holds. ''Maybe'' the license change will result in significant uptake and eventual notability, but that's not true now. If that happens the Shen Wikipedia page can be reborn. [[User:Hga|Hga]] ([[User talk:Hga|talk]]) 11:16, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

::I totally respect that you're entitled to your opinion, [[User:68.184.193.46|68.184.193.46]], based on the reasons you cite. Unfortunately, they do not address the one issue we consider at AfD, which is the [[WP:Notability|notability]] of the subject. Everything else is a content issue to decided elsewhere, assuming we keep the page. Under [[WP:GNG|our guidelines]], we define notability in a more technical way than might be common in ordinary usage. Here on WP, it's not enough that a subject ''seems'' notable or that we feel it ''should be'' notable. Instead, we require that others not connected to the subject must have ''taken note'' and that they have done it ''[[WP:RS|reliable sources]]'', which we define as those with reputations for fact-checking and editorial control. This is what we don't have here and why I've argued for deletion. I note that Tarver indicates there are 467 of you in his newsgroup. All that's required to establish notability would be if at least 2 of you would write some short articles about Shen and get them published somewhere. Why not just do that? In the meantime, you may certainly request the page be [[WP:USERFIED]] while you continue to look for (or create) sources. [[User:Msnicki|Msnicki]] ([[User talk:Msnicki|talk]]) 18:36, 7 March 2015 (UTC)