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Go (programming language)

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Article contains no substantial references outside golang.org, owned by Google, and is either motivated either by recent news on its release (which is not notable) or self-promotion. The article does not belong on Wikipedia until Go has proven its notability.BarryNorton (talk) 19:32, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • I haven't. In fact if you check the edit history you'll see I was contributing positively to this article. In the mean time, though, I've been persuaded (by consistency) that Google's Go language is not notable, after one day, under the criteria applied for an encyclopedia. This is not a tech news site, this article belongs on blogs. BarryNorton (talk) 19:45, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • If that's the case, just leave them be. It's not like these fifteen kilobytes of database space are personally harming you. If you think it's such a waste of time, why spend energy trying to defeat it? Unless, of course, you had a chip on your shoulder... hif (talk) 20:51, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Huh, I hadn't noticed that Laurent nominated the Go! article for deletion. That is also hella lame; definitely changes my perception of the comments preceding this one in the thread. hif (talk) 22:05, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • More to the point, all current references appear to be from golang.org itself, original work of the golang.org team ( techtalk ), or references to the recent release of the software to the general public ( PR ). While newsworthy, it's not WP:N until there is a larger body of 3rd party references. The existing article should, in the meantime, probably be divided up between the authors pages or a Google sub-page. brontide (talk) 20:36, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: It's a record of programming languages. Wikipedia is an incredibly useful resource on this topic, and probably a major keeper of our communal folklore. There are a ton of less notable programming languages that have articles, and they're all great imho. Who doesn't love Whitespace or INTERCAL? hif (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Already the amount of publicity makes it notable. It brings about some novelties that make it a unique and valuable thing that seems exciting to a tremendous lot of poeple as you can guess from the news coverage. So: We should keep it and let it grow to a better article that reflects that notability to full extent.--Wondigoma (talk) 20:44, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: Your idea of notability obviously differs from much of the other existing articles on Wikipedia, how about flagging some esoteric languages like LOLCODE for deletion? It seems that this is just some trolling to gain some notoriety. --Lewisham (talk) 20:50, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This deletion request has been a source of ridicule from John Siracusa, who is notable enough to be cited in Dock, Finder_(software) and Mac OS X. This WP:POINT request reflects badly on Wikipedia. --Lewisham (talk) 21:25, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • This nomination should be closed per WP:SNOW since it was opened for the wrong reasons. There's nothing to discuss whatsoever as we all know the language has been (and will be) reviewed in details in major websites. Laurent (talk) 21:30, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - plenty of independent coverage to establish notability. Not eligible for speedy/snow, imo, because there's a definite question of recentism that needs to be discussed fully.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:43, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy Keep plenty of coverage, even in non-web media. 72.8.35.210 (talk) 21:58, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy Keep - Since this language is new, third party coverage is hard to find at this stage, except for comments. The language is very interesting, seen from a computer programmer's view, having been in the trade for some 33 years. It has a fresh new view on Object Orientation, and uses a very interesting concurrency solution, it should also be usable for multicore. I have been doing minor editing on the article, but it certainly needs to be built up more over the next months.

--Øyvind Teig (talk) 22:24, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment: A big company announces a programming language and it gets an article almost immediate. Almost nobody questions the notability, third-party coverage or other things that are used to delete articles about other languages. Thomas Mertes (talk) 22:42, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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