"It's amazing that anybody creates Wikpedia articles at all"

Yeh. This is why I stopped editing wikipedia very often. They are maniacal about deleting things that I consider noteworthy but others don't. I still love wikipedia and think its the best website on the internet, but this is probably its biggest flaw.

> "It's amazing that anybody creates Wikpedia articles at all"

Very few people do, which actually makes it worse: of course the spammers and the hustlers are still motivated, so the needle moves more firmly into the territory of "most newcomer contributions are made in bad faith". Editors and admins feel increasingly under siege, so they respond more aggressively to everything.

It's basically the same problem as with real-world policing: because the cops overwhelmingly have deal with "problem" cases (you call them about burglars or drug dealers, not to tell them you baked some cookies), they develop a skewed perception of the average citizen and... well.

They even roll back corrections to grammar. Power tripping overrides common sense.

Two comments about the submission:

First:

The author, katamari64.se, is clearly an incompetent, dishonest, manipulative wretch, deeply similar to some of the wretches he criticizes. And there is absolutely no good reason for the article being as long as it is. The article also is full of completely obvious errors, like footnotes being broken, indicating that it might have been partially or fully generated without review.

Second:

For whatever reason, the article fails to question this claim:

> Wonderfully, Odin is now being used by dozens of companies, thousands of public projects, and over a million hobbyists

Specifically, the "million hobbyists". That number is not sourced and is likely utterly false. The claim about thousands of public projects might be true, judging by https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=language:Odin , but many of those repositories are for tiny projects that have not been updated for a long time, or have even been archived. Redmonk does not even seem to list Odin: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/04/14/language-rankings-1-2... . I don't care too much about Odin having a Wikipedia entry or not, but some of the more important claims in favor of Odin's notability are potentially utterly false, yet this article doesn't even address them despite its utterly and unnecessarily bloated length.

To summarize:

The article, its author, and Wikipedia, are, at best, trash.

It is fine that the Wikipedia article was removed, it would also have been fine if it was kept, Wikipedia is trash or worse. If the Odin community wants to be available on Wikipedia, then give credible sources about a million users, and source noteworthy projects written in Odin, not only a few companies using Odin. Odin could also play the shill game, somehow, maybe by paying journalists to write about it or pay shills to promote and upvote it here on Hacker News and other social media, that is common these days for some programming languages, but I generally dislike that, and I don't know what the journalists would even write about. Odin's author could also pay for hitpieces on competing languages, that also seems to be common these days. Was the submission a wretched, low-quality, cultish/ethnic-warfare hitpiece on Odin; paid for by a competing language community; or both? It is reminiscent of the kind of hitpieces and threats of violence and attempted murders that the Rust community is infamous for committing.