Comment by baranul | Hacker News Reader

Comment by baranul | Hacker News Reader

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This type of odd vitriol against vlang, when the language has nothing to do with Wikipedia's processes, is both misplaced and demonstrates succumbing to excessive fanaticism from competitor propaganda. The origins of this strange sentiment, appears to partially come from Odin's creator, making the situation a bit of poetic justice. We are here to witness vlang's creator having a Wikipedia page, while Odin's creator still doesn't, and despite his language being older.

Odin being rejected or found unworthy to have an article, is about its supporters or helpers (which includes C3's creator and the author of the self published Odin eBook) not providing proper references. The jealousy or shooting strays at other languages should instead have that energy redirected elsewhere.

Wikipedia has a standard, that when challenged (under AfD or Articles for Deletion)[1], all articles must pass it or be subject to deletion. Those are Wikipedia rules, not vlang's or those of other languages. Meet the requirements that Wikipedia is asking for, instead of unleashing anger at other languages.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

While perhaps this is on me for not stating my position while repeating Bill's comment, I think you are unfairly assuming bad faith.

You are wrong to state that I am motivated by fanatism or jealousy.

I have no involvement whatever with Odin and am in agreement with the parent article (though I think it's personal criticisms veer a bit too far). The creator of Odin using Odin at jangafx is not an appropriate source in my view.

Nowhere, that I could find, was katamari's post about Wikipedia's rejection of Odin or the one by Ginger Bill (which katamari references), were either was saying that vlang was fraudulent (which is ridiculous disinformation).

Rather, the shooting of such strays appears to reflect old competitor propaganda pushed on certain social media sites (that traces back to Ginger Bill and other competitors in different ways) and a sentiment, often regurgitated by certain fanatics of his, where they appear to be upset by vlang's level of success.

> Our best hypothesis is quite simple: some of the mods just don't like Odin as a language

Even here, where this quote is taken directly from Ginger Bill's post, shows how wrong he and certain of his followers are about the issue. It is not about about Wikipedia mods not liking Odin or even about the articles of other languages. Wikipedia has certain rules and reference requirements for articles to survive an AfC or AfD "challenge" and Odin failed.

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