alt Hacker NewsI've heard of Odin for years now. Maybe because I like knowing about new/nascent languages. For example, have you heard of roc-lang? You've likely heard of Zig.
It's possible I'm in a bubble, but it would be a fairly notable bubble.
Things that are perhaps niche but growing should be an argument for keeping them.
Isn't Wikipedia a compendium of facts? Odin's existence is one of those facts. /shrug
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> I've heard of Odin for years now.
So have I. But what's notable for many HN users, may be muuuuch less notable for average dude on the street.
Wikipedia's policies on this seem pretty clear & reasonable to me. And not too high a bar to clear, imho.
So perhaps a better question is why Odin hasn't - so far. Or just agree that maybe it's not as notable (yet!) as some may think.
Wikipedia only has facts on it because they're difficult to argue about.
Trust me, they would delete facts if they could. It's not a site for smart people.
> Isn't Wikipedia a compendium of facts? Odin's existence is one of those facts. /shrug
Nope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_no...
> Isn't Wikipedia a compendium of facts? Odin's existence is one of those facts.
Odin is pretty notable imo, but what I had for lunch yesterday is a fact and it does not belong in Wikipedia. A house is a shelter for people, thus my house is a shelter for people; you are a person, but that doesn't that you belong in my house.
Isn't Wikipedia a compendium of facts?
It is an encyclopedia of topics that meet its standards of notability (ie there exists "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject"[1]).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability