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Imagine one day you wake up, you drink your morning glass of milk, brush your teeth, sit on your computer, stare your own diffuse image on the display, while reflecting on your own gingerness. You turn on the nerd machine while doing the daily "no updates" Windows pray. The computer is finally on, and what is that... Wikipedia link? What is this "Articles for Deletion Odin (Programming Language)", oh no, that doesn't sound good.

Fortunately we are mere readers of these events. I don't know if that's an accurate reconstruction of GingerBill's steps (creator of the Odin Programming language, and officially recognized ginger) as I'm not him nor Palantir, but I'm fairly confident about the ginger part, and that at some point he read the following statement about the article on the Odin Programming Language:

Non-notable programming language that has received no in-depth coverage from reliable sources . The article's current sources consist of the developer's personal sites, random blogs that happen to use the language, and a self-published e-book. Coverage in academic research consists of trivial mentions.

Last week, the Odin article on Wikipedia was deleted through a typical Articles for Deletion (AfD) process:

Summarizing it, 5/7 for delete have accounts, and 1/4 for keep have accounts. Not along after the final vote, a Wikipedia admin deleted the article. Being a little bit lax with my language, the majority's consensus agreed that Odin isn't notable, and the article had no reliable sources.

If you are familiar with Odin, one of the most popular "C competitor" languages, this might sound a little bit insane to say out loud. How can Odin not be notable? If you are terminally online on programming circles, you most likely have heard of Odin, it's so obvious that I don't feel like I have to make a case at all. It has been covered by the streamer Primeagen and it's used commercially by JangaFX, that's pretty notable to me.