@SK53 @wikipedia @seav @edward @richardf my guesstimate...

@SK53 @wikipedia @seav @edward @richardf my guesstimate would be ~half a million users, which is a lot more than a -lot- of other "specialist" software.

Like 17 July at 9:26 | Open on en.osm.town

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InsertUser

@simon @SK53 @wikipedia @seav @edward @richardf where is the discussion archived for its proposed deletion?

The book burners at Wikipedia seems to be in charge these days.

17 July at 10:11 | Open on en.osm.town

Simon Poole

@InsertUser @SK53 @wikipedia @seav @edward @richardf wasn't deleted, instead the entry was redirected to the OpenStreetMap entry. If the content had been integrated in to that, it would have been OKish (except that the OSM article is really bad with lots of bloopers, but still better than the German one).

17 July at 10:15 | Open on en.osm.town

InsertUser

@simon @SK53 @wikipedia @seav @edward @richardf that's still a deletion in my book. All the information was deleted and the page made more hidden than if it had been left as red text.

17 July at 10:26 | Open on en.osm.town

InsertUser

@simon @SK53 @wikipedia @seav @edward @richardf
LOL, the person who appears to have changed it to a redirect has as one of their "objectives":

> Neutral inclusionism: Ensure the objectivity, completeness, and lack of historical revision, of the history of computing and gaming. Convert condemnations into explanations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Smuckola

So to make it more complete delete the info.

What happened to warnings about stubs that need expansion and discussion before deletion?

@simon @SK53 @wikipedia @seav @edward @richardf
LOL, the person who appears to have changed it to a redirect has as one of their "objectives":

> Neutral inclusionism: Ensure the objectivity, completeness, and lack of historical revision, of the history of computing and gaming. Convert condemnations into explanations.

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17 July at 10:21 | Open on en.osm.town

SK53

@simon @wikipedia @seav @edward @richardf So possibly in the top five most popular pieces of GIS software, after iD, ArcGIS and QGIS.

I've noticed that Wikipedia articles often have a strong recency bias, especially for corporations : the EMI Group article includes broad conglomerates of the original EMI and Thorn-EMI which had the current EMI business as a subsidiary generating no more than 25% of turnover. The sundry UK government radar research labs in Malvern are treated more rationally.

17 July at 11:40 | Open on en.osm.town

InsertUser

@SK53 @simon @wikipedia @seav @edward @richardf

I think the general trend in #Wikipedia is that anything relating to things that existed more than 10 years ago gets edited down bit by bit until it's a stub and then deleted as not notable because all the citations got lost in the edits.

17 July at 12:35 | Open on en.osm.town