Talk:Envy Code R

Software catagories

I added the categories 2008 software and proprietary software to this page, but im not sure that didgital typefaces fall under the software umbrella. If someone has a better catagory for it, please let me know. Xevus11 (talk) 06:40, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

There has been a lot of issues with licensing of digital typefaces; the OFL finally cleaned up the mess in the late oughts. The reason this article exists is because: 1) The font has a homepage 2) The font was a redlink over at Template:Monospaced_fonts. Personally, I think this will end up getting deleted, since we have a bunch of rigmarole about needing to have “non-trival mentions in reliable sources” to have a Wikipedia article — which means that pretty much every single font with a homepage, or GitHub page, or whatever, which is useful to programmers should be deleted per Wikipedia’s rules, for the simple reason that magazines, books, scholarly journals, and newspapers just don’t talk about fonts. To wit, I can’t find an article about Open Sans which would allow that font to pass Wikipedia’s arbitrary guidelines for notability, even though it is the look of the 2010s, being on 21 million websites and viewed 28.3 billion times last week.

The deletionists took over Wikipedia back in 2007; if you look at a graph of the number of people contributing to the Wikipedia over the years, it peaked in 2007 — then started declining. It started declining because the deletionists took over; before then, people could just click on a redlink, start up an article, and make Wikipedia a slightly better place; after 2007 or so, people who did that would find their article deleted in short order unless they could prove it was on the front page of The New York Times (and, yes, we have deleted — or converted in to redirects — subjects which have been on the front page of NYT!), so new editors just gave up. And the Wikipedia has been languishing since then, having a hard time getting new editors. Samboy (talk) 07:18, 13 June 2018 (UTC)