Despite these disruptions, the company is unparalleled from a profit-per-employee perspective. Craiglist's network effect may have reached its limit, but the company will continue to make huge profits. They clearly favor maintenance over product development, but that doesn't diminish their status as a profit-per-employee anomaly.
He didn't get called out. He got harassed excessively. People with no interest in a language they've never heard of suddenly began venting irrational rage at a guy for suggesting that a language article might not be notable.
The solution to a wiki page being marked AfD is to improve the article with useful citations or discuss why the current citations are enough to verify the article.
It's not to stalk both online and offline the person who suggested a discussion should be had on the notability of a topic.
Ahem... Let me rephrase my above comment. Anything Chris can do, you can do. Perhaps rather than complaining about who "should" clean it up, you can actually do it yourself?
Re your 2: it's not really up to Monsanto to restore the deleted articles. It's not his call, and if it went through Afd once, to recreate the articles would be to see them get redeleted.
But why would he apologize? He sees himself as following the letter of the law, and points out that if this is an issue, change the law.
Honestly this sounds like 2 things -
A cry of help from Wikipedia stating they need concerted outside help/force to fix something they can see is broken/can be improved
A lawyer saying that its not his fault the rules are what they are.
tropo's got an unlimited free dev account. you might want to build something that could abstract the calls to either and switch between them as need be (twilio restructured pricing recently, tropo may do the same, etc).
I did something like this some time ago, before twilio (or at least before I knew of them) and may revisit this basic idea at some point.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy