Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
Here's the main offender:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Christopher_Monsanto" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Christopher_Monsanto</a><p>One of his arguments is that these languages are often only mentioned in conference proceedings.<p>How you get to be a PhD student in computer science without realising that conference proceedings are the <i>leading distribution mechanism for knowledge</i> in the CS research world is a mystery.<p>I may only be a humble honours student, but the central importance of conferences over journals has been drummed into me over and over by my professors.