Gary Houston on Nostr: On of the flaws of Wikipedia is its concept of "reliable sources." Which means ...
On of the flaws of Wikipedia is its concept of "reliable sources." Which means "mainstream" sources like commercial media.
An article on the Odin programming language was deleted, since the references consisted of self-published blogs, and an e-book. Written by experts on the language, presumably, so likely to be technically reliable.
If only Odin had been mentioned on Fox News, or the White House had complained about it, its status would probably be secure.
https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/Published at
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