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

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: I think this is exactly balancing on where I would draw the line of notability for a programming language (if the mention in the first article wasn't just a plug for the second article, the second ''Dr. Dobbs'' article was written by someone independent of the language, and the ''InfoWorld'' article a bit less obviously filler material, I'd probably have argued more strongly for a keep, but this is not the case). If kept only factual material should be included in the article (which apart form the "efficient, expressive, and elegant programming language" doesn't seem to be too much of a problem with the current article). The reddit/Slashdot citation can probably go, they are in most cases as good as having no citation. —''[[User:Ruud Koot|Ruud]]'' 12:11, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

::I find I'm in exact agreement with you about the existence of sources about the topic, and about the recognition on GitHub. My opinion is that this is still not quite enough to pass [[WP:GNG]], however. I could be persuaded to switch to support with another solid source, but I haven't found anything so far (and I've been following all the links that others have posted to this discussion). — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr.&nbsp;Stradivarius</span>]]''''' ^{[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪&nbsp;talk&nbsp;♪]]} 15:14, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

::: This language is in the gray area where there is some subjective and objective evidence that it's a bit more than a random toy project, but not not enough to make it clearly notable. In the end it doesn't really matter if we keep or delete it: articles about such languages always end up being so bland that no one will miss out anything if we delete it, or be misled if we keep it. There are more important article to be written and more worrisome cruft to be deleted. —''[[User:Ruud Koot|Ruud]]'' 15:28, 1 April 2015 (UTC)