Posted by MaximilianEmel 2 hours ago
The result of this is that there are a lot of articles on Wikipedia which don't follow its own notability rules. This can be confusing and frustrating for people - like, what do you mean the Idris programming language has a Wikipedia article and Odin doesn't? Who even uses Idris?
But the reality is that, the "Idris" article also doesn't meet notability. One day someone decided to write it, and the simple fact is nobody noticed that it wasn't notable, so it stayed. But someone happened to be around to notice the writing of "Odin" and delete it.
I mention INTERCAL to someone, at some point, about 2 or 3 times per year. By my own estimation, it is historically noteworthy. However, is it more deserving of space on Wikipedia than this Odin language, which I know almost about, but which has current applications and is in active use?
I don't have an answer to that question, but that is what comes to mind.