Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foswiki (2nd nomination)
Foswiki - please don't delete - A Considered Perspective''' First, although I've been using the 'net for 30 years and I've been using Wikis since the idea came around, I'm not up on all the process/procedure of Wikipedia.  So, if I top-post when I shouldn't, or comment where I shouldn't, or say I intend to do something when I'm not supposed to say I intend to do things, I apologize for not knowing how to play by your rules. I'm here to provide perspective on this particular issue.  Wikipedia administrators, interested parties, Foswiki devs, TWiki devs, etc. - PLEASE don't "pigeonhole" me on this issue as anything other than one of the guys who helped make BOTH of these tools what they are today.  I love TWiki, and I love Foswiki - they're both like children to me.  Children who fought each other tooth and nail, but children none the less. Foswiki is real.  Its significant.  Its different than TWiki in major ways.  It started as a fork, and when it forked, it was almost indistinguishable.  Today, the two projects are VERY different.   Take a look: http://www.ohloh.net/p/Foswiki - to minimize that and say "it's just a fork of TWiki" is like saying Fedora is just a fork of RedHat.  Let's see...  RedHat gets its own page, AND a page for Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux ... AND a page for Fedora_(operating_system) too. I urge you all to KEEP Foswiki as a separate page, and NOT redirect it to TWiki, and NOT delete it.  And I urge proponents of BOTH wikis to refrain from disparaging the other one, or writing "XYZ is dead" articles, etc. and simply code what they're going to code, and let their work speak for itself.  (i.e. apply  globally) Thanks for your consideration
— User:PaulReiber, 02:14, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTBATTLEGROUND (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)