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At the start of the Easy Java Simulations article the {{Notability}} box is still present. On this talk page the 'proposed deletion box', dating from november 2008 is still present

I propose to remove those two boxes.

As evidence that EJS is actively taken up as an educational tool I present the following links.

--Cleonis | Talk 07:56, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Additional references added July 28th:


I've removed the notability tag on the basis of the links above -- I would encourage working them into the article itself as well. The "Old prod" template should stay here, since it informs editors about the history of the page, in particular letting them know that the proposed deletion process has already been exhausted. -David Schaich Talk/Cont 16:09, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I wonder now whether there are guidelines as to the purpose of the References section of a wikipedia article.
The first reference is the article about EJS that was published in The Physics Teacher. The knife cuts both ways there: for the Wikipedia visitors it is a good source of information about EJS, and to other Wikipedia editors it is evidence of EJS {{Notability}}. I'm happy with that.
The thing is, I feel the other links just serve the purpose of giving evidence of notability. I doubt it's in the interest of Wikipedia visitors to be offered those links.
The EJS website, hosted by the University of Murcia, Spain, is the best source of information about EJS. Now, the author's self-published site does not constitude evidence of notability, of course.
So there's a tension there. My purpose in editing the EJS article has been and will be to inform the Wikipedia visitor. Establishing notability of EJS to other Wikipedia editors wasn't on my mind. Being faced with the necessity to present evidence of notability I went to the Talk page. --Cleonis | Talk 19:27, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]