Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fly (programming language)

Fly_(programming_language)

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At its simplest, the wikipedia page has more information than the user's webpage. Furthermore, the only pertinent link on the entire page goes to the user's personal webserver (no URL, just an IP). This, combined with no visible work on the language itself suggests a real lack of notability. No amount of improvement to the wiki-page will suffice when there is a lack of information in existence. Gundato (talk) 13:09, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The only Citation/reference for the language that isn't broken is NOT actually related to the language in the article. Moreover, The only page related to the work itself is the author's home server. Also, I'm inclined to think that the language doesn't actually exist considering I can find no reference code or compiler. There doesn't seem to be anything at all. I also feel the syntax bears a striking resemblance to cool (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_(programming_language) which is a language used to teach CS students about compilers. Given this, my guess is that the language is more or less the authors first experience creating a language and he created the wiki article to go along with that (the author did create the article if you check the history). In general, there is a complete lack of notability. snaphat (talk) 15:00, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Heh, that's a whole lot of guesswork, all of it wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.9.214.181 (talk) 23:39, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Funny that you should mention Cool, since Cool's wikipedia entry only contains references to material produces by the language project, nothing third party. Why isn't that removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.9.214.181 (talk) 00:07, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - If you feel an article should not be on Wikipedia, either improve it, or nominate it (Believe it or not, but I did do a thorough search in an attempt to find any way to have this article be considered notable. Unfortunately, as has been mentioned, there appears to be no work done on this project, only a single person on the project itself, and no references that can be used to mark this as notable). Also, there are only a finite number of editors on Wikipedia. And the number of editors are considerably smaller than the number of people who wish to make a wikipedia article for every web page they like. As such, Wiki made very concrete rules regarding notability and the like. You look at the rules to see if an article is notable, not its neighbors. Either way, please try to be civil. Gundato (talk) 00:44, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Amusing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.9.214.181 (talk) 01:50, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - In regard to COOL: The 1996 paper published to ACM SIGPLAN Notices is referenced by 26 other scholarly works. Many of those would qualify as 3rd party references on Wikipedia. Moreover, the publication (and many others citing the particular work) are published to ACM special interest groups which are highly regarded as top of the line conferences/journals in the field. Simply because the wiki article itself is lacking references, does not make the language un-notable. Feel free to add references if you wish. snaphat (talk) 00:48, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I just removed all unrelated citations/references. They look to be an attempt to simply make the article look notable. snaphat (talk) 15:10, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 00:47, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete WP:N is quite clear - notability depends on 3rd party sources, not self-publishing alone. No evidence for any 3rd party notice here. Andy Dingley (talk) 01:17, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - There is a Fly programming language but that isn't the same one as the one considered here. There is no coverage about this in reliable sources. -- Whpq (talk) 14:02, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Delete The article is clearly about a DIY project. Even if the language is fully realized at some point, it still would not be noteworthy without acceptance and use by the general public. --Djohns21 (talk) 01:01, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete All other Keep comments, etc, by project members removed, consensus is to Delete. Flylanguage (talk) 13:01, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]