[racket] PLAI WP page scheduled to be deleted

Actually, the bar for "Academic and technical books" seems to be covered if
it's used as a textbook by several reputable institutions.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
wrote:

> 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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