Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MKR (programming language)

MKR (programming language)

non-notable obscure programming language whose article creator and major contributor is a WP:COI problem as the source of most of its references ju66l3r (talk) 08:01, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I do not feel that I have a conflict of interest. My primary objective is to advance the state of the art for Semantic Web.

All my software is freeware; I get no money for anything. In spirit, mKR/mKE is very much like Notation 3 (aka N3); it attempts to provide users of the Semantic Web with an easy to read presentation of propositions. I think it's only a matter of chance timing that N3 is so popular and mKR is not. I do feel that mKR has something valuable to offer the Semantic Web community. I would be happy to edit the mKR and mKE pages to get rid of any appearance of conflict of interest. As soon as I finish this note, I intend to look carefully at my references. Off the top of my head, I would say that the only reference of mine that ought to stay in is the original 1997 announcement of the existence of mKR and mKE. I can look for someone else's post from the W3C & Yahoo archives to replace mine, or I could just delete those two posts of mine. I certainly welcome any comments from Wikipedia's staff re: what might be considered a better presentation than the present one. I certainly will not do anything to "hide" my pages, or in any other way, to avoid this issue of deletion. Rhmccullough (talk) 09:10, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

keep - COI is no reason to delete something - though it is something that rhmccullough should bear in mind. As the creator you are inherently biased in favour of the language - that's not a flaw in you, just the way humans work. In terms of notability this seems to be on par with many of the other programming languages I've seen here and it's certainly going to be more widely used than all the esoteric languages that are included (though I appreciate that this is not a strong argument). The article could do with some expansion, particularly in the History section; the definition section could be expanded into a paragraph of prose for use as an introductory paragraph. The information is clearly verifiable, and the article is well cited, so I see no reason to delete. Conrad.Irwin (on wikt) 12:01, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As per nom. Clear WP:COI issue, non-notable obscure programming language. Proxy User (talk) 12:58, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To Proxy User: From the way you talk, you seem to imply that my conflict of interest has surely caused me to make false statements on the pages that I prepared. I thought, in America, you were innocent until proved guilty. Rhmccullough (talk) 14:23, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]