[racket] PLAI WP page scheduled to be deleted

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 24 12:59:13 EST 2014

Bullet 4 seems achievable:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(books)

It's listed on my course web page and I think that's independent of the book.

Probably it's also listed at Utah.

Not sure how to actually do something to fix this, tho.

Robby

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> I happened to notice this yesterday:
>
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_Languages:_Application_and_Interpretation
>
> Which means that if nothing id done, it gets deleted in two days.  Last
> time it happened (with the Racket page), there was also a discussion on
> the talk page, and this time there is nothing.  Even worse, the proposed
> deltion has a template to let the page author or project know about it,
> and I don't think that it was used (though I'm not the author of that
> page).
>
> IIUC, one possible thing to do is to just remove the proposition, and
> justify that in the talk page or in the commit message.  The next step
> would be that this will move to a discussion place where there will be a
> vote.  But it's probably best if the page itself is improved.  So this
> is a call for people to do that -- especially if you have some WP
> writing experience and know how to deal with these situations.
>
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