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Perl articles are being memory wiped from Wikipedia

28 pointsby leejotoday at 9:20 AM15 commentsview on HN

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pellatoday at 10:18 AM

The new rule of notability: if it’s no longer in Google’s index, it basically doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability criteria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion...

"From a Google search, I wasn’t able to find" appears multiple times on that page alone.

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Philpaxtoday at 10:02 AM

The reasons for deletion don't seem that outlandish to me. I'd rather not see them deleted, but I also don't think this outcome is that surprising, nor would I describe it as a "memory wipe."

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mrjay42today at 11:40 AM

So this is about PerlMonks, which I knew nothing about until today.

I searched it, the site is down The Wikipedia article is deleted

This is pure loss of information somehow.

I and a lot of other people in the future will never know what "perlmonks" is/are, how important it was?, etc. etc.

The logic seems to be: if tomorrow Stack Exchange disappears, the Wikipedia article will be deleted? If yes, then that makes zero sense.

DrScientisttoday at 10:36 AM

Wikipedia has a page for an Egyptian King that ruled for perhaps only 10 years 5000 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anedjib

Why is that still relevant?

Or to put it another way when does the contemporary move into interesting history?

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cedillatoday at 10:28 AM

I'll never understand the amount of vitriol Wikipedia volunteers must receive. Why is the deletion (or even deletion proposal) regarded as such a heinous act that people feel the need to attack and bully others?

I find this kind of behaviour and rethoric wholly unacceptable.

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