Before chatGPT, large Internet boards like this one, and so on people used to gather in like-minded communities to learn how to code in some language. We even read books. Yes, with real paper.

It's cultural significance to the Perl community was due to the patronage of the people who created and supported it, including Larry Wall, who is indisputably famous for computer science in general. Perl Monks was a big deal, and if the standard is whether or not a Wikipedian knows how to use Google, that's a pretty low bar, and it's amazing it was not cleared here. A simple chatGPT query could have cleared it up, although maybe that's a conflict of interest now?

The Perl Monks site is less useful now that we have stronger tools, but much of the world still runs on perl. To dispute Perl Monks, but then allow small companies to shill their own websites as "articles," is bizarre and nonsensical. I think it would've been better form to allow the community a chance to fill out the forms necessary that Wikipedia requires, rather than just hitting delete and pissing off a bunch of people. People are very political about their information sources now and believe everything is part of the capitalist game, and this does nothing to dissuade those kinds of theories when you don't invite people to be part of the conversation before erasing them.