Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arc (programming language)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   merge to Paul Graham (computer programmer). (non-admin closure) Esquivalience t 00:42, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Arc (programming language)
AfDs for this article: 


 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Lacks multiple reliable independent secondary sources to establish notability as required by WP:GNG. Sources offered are all WP:PRIMARY or WP:Self-published sources. Googling turned up nothing helpful. Though it appears the authors are notable, notability is not inherited by everything they create. In the previous AfD ten years ago, the outcome was merge; that may still be an appropriate outcome. The article has been tagged for primary sources for 4 years. Msnicki (talk) 17:15, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge Merge with Paul Graham remains the right thing, probably trimming some of the details. --Macrakis (talk) 19:16, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge with Paul Graham (computer programmer). Most of the content is already the same. The language itself seems to be dormant compared to other List dialects, like Clojure. Few posts on the user forum, little evidence that it is being used in applications. – Margin1522 (talk) 20:23, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:48, 13 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Selective merge to Paul Graham (computer programmer) – Arc programming language. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 02:27, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge with the article on Paul Graham. Like Margin1522, didn't see too much notability or usage out there. APerson (talk!) 16:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Partially Merge with Paul Graham, though some of it can be trashed.  Kharkiv07 Talk  18:20, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep a decently sourced article on the language used for an influential web site. Suggest giving people who care about it time to improve sources. --Zippy (talk) 23:17, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * fwiw, a github-hosted implementation of arc, Arcadia has >100 stars and ~15 forks, which is pretty popular.
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.