User blog comment:Vel!/FGH Gripe/@comment-30754445-20170220134751/@comment-30754445-20170621213651

Well, given the current state of the mainspace, you gotta admit that Vel has a point. The current situation where basically anything goes in the mainspace is completely and utterly rediculous. I find it hilarious that we have articles for things like "Trimixommwil" or "Dustaculated-terrisquared-tethracubor" while "107" only directs to the Busy Beaver function (and articles for numbers like "101" are constantly deleted)

You got that? 101 is not notable enough to appear in the mainspace, but the 101th number listed on someone's website is? Sorry, but that's just plain crazy.

So I really can understand Vel's frustration.

But on the other hand, he took things to an unreasonable extreme. If we banned all original content from the mainspace, we would have nothing. There is no such thing as "mainstream googology", so if we limited ourselves only to reporting "officially" discovered stuff, we would have almost nothing to report.

Moreover, some of the biggest breakthroughs in serious googology came from the members of this wiki. From Bowers incredibly intuitive notation (up to at least w^w and perhaps e0) to busy beaver records to impressive bounds on actual problems (Deedlit's upper bound on Graham, Hyp-cos' lower bounds on SSCG). And just a few days ago, your "FGH of analytic functions". I mean, we're practically doing math history here every week (though I admit that the bar set by the academia in this field is ridiculously low).

And I must admit that I also like the whimsical side of googology. The side of childlike wonder and plain good fun. But surely we can have childlike wonder and fun without turning the mainspace into one big joke?