"The two inline references I removed (TripCom and SOA4All) make no mention of Go!, and I have absolutely no idea what relevance they have" - again, why not ask on the talk page? You simply do not assume good faith. First I'm accused of being Frank, now you're accusing me of being a spammer. No?   
 "The Erlang reference only mentions Go! in a footnote" - you mean mentions it thus by name, I suppose? (I mean, when the alternative is that you're simply lying.) You have an occasional 'academic bias' but you're unaware that academics very often refer to one another simply by citation (and that citing an article about Go! in the body text of an introduction to a paper is citing Go!)