Why did this - moderately successful (close to 50 upvotes, 30 favourites, accepted answer with 100+ votes) - community wiki question get deleted?

[Do I really need version control?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/250984)

During the training and consultancy part of my work, I bump into people asking this question all the time.

Maybe http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ is a better place, but delete?