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The reasons for deletion don't seem that outlandish to me. I'd rather not see them deleted, but I also don't think this outcome is that surprising, nor would I describe it as a "memory wipe."
The new rule of notability: if it’s no longer in Google’s index, it basically doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability criteria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion...

"From a Google search, I wasn’t able to find" appears multiple times on that page alone.

This « rule » is infuriating. Google searches are tailored to serve us content that might interest us. In this case, Google search first page returns plenty of notable results for me. Might not be the case for a person interested in geology and dogs, though.

How could such a biased thing be a valid WikiPedia criteria?

I'll never understand the amount of vitriol Wikipedia volunteers must receive. Why is the deletion (or even deletion proposal) regarded as such a heinous act that people feel the need to attack and bully others?

I find this kind of behaviour and rethoric wholly unacceptable.

Wikipedia has a page for an Egyptian King that ruled for perhaps only 10 years 5000 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anedjib

Why is that still relevant?

Or to put it another way when does the contemporary move into interesting history?

So this is about PerlMonks, which I knew nothing about until today.

I searched it, the site is down The Wikipedia article is deleted

This is pure loss of information somehow.

I and a lot of other people in the future will never know what "perlmonks" is/are, how important it was?, etc. etc.

The logic seems to be: if tomorrow Stack Exchange disappears, the Wikipedia article will be deleted? If yes, then that makes zero sense.

The PerlMonks page was in death as it was in life: completely unreadable.
Still active and relevant for some people from those communities, though. Without mentioning the historic value.
"Self-Organizing Social Learning Through the Monastery Gates" ( Rose M. Baker & David L. Passmore : The Pennsylvania State University ; 2005 )

"Abstract

An example of an emergent, self-organizing on-line social learning system is available at the PerlMonks site at http://perlmonks.org/. Perl is a scripting language commonly used to as an interface between databases and web pages. Provided in this paper is a review of principles of emergent, self-organizing systems from a perspective of learning systems as well as case study of PerlMonks as self-organizing eLearning."

PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rose-Baker/publication/...

via google scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22perlmonks.org%22