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Wikipedia articles like this bug me. It is a well written introduction to the project, but why is that on the Wikipedia? Put that on your own website! I wish more people would follow wikipedia’s very clean and easy style.

This is of course why the article can’t follow wikipedia’s citation rules. And also all the references just link to articles by one group, so the article can’t give you any real context. Is this a serious, notable work? Or is someone just boosting their search rankings with a Wikipedia link?



Yeah, why would something well-written be on Wikipedia?

It's definitely not more notable than a list of butterflies on stamps of Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_butterflies_on_stamps_...


This would have been cooler if they had written the page in the language itself (going meta, here)


More appropriate would be to have English Wikipedia translated wholesale to ACE. In that one the article about ACE would be naturally in ACE.


Sounds great, let's go and fork Wikipedia.


Heh, it actually bugged me while reading that it wasn’t written in ACE.


It seems like the latter, though if so, it's surprising to me that it hasn't been removed. Wikipedia's editors are pretty brutal about the notoriety threshold.


Only with things in which editors exist who feel confident enough (sometimes wrongly) to judge their notability. You can completely make up pages describing concepts in obscure fields, as long if you can generate a citation or three - bonus points if the papers cited are unintelligible to all but a few dozen people in the world, and don't even mention the concept.




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