Talk:71st World Science Fiction Convention

Who is bidding?
There was a fair amount of research done by someone else which resulted in Zagreb and Texas being added to this article. Both bids were also added to a list of upcoming bids. While I don't know the background of it being listed there the research for this article included what appeared to be an announcement at Denvention, a bid website, and a fair amount of discussion.

A change was then made to this article stating explicitly that "Texas is currently exploring the possibility of putting together a bid, but has not announced that they will have a bid." The comment explaining that change was somewhat stronger and both were in direct contradiction to what had been said in the article previously and the general understanding of the situation.

I had been working with the data I had when Ed Dravecky III said, in response to a post of mine about this, that the next meeting of the exploratory committee would be at ArmadilloCon. The article has been edited so that the apparent bid announcement does not reflect poorly on ALAMO and the contraction to that announcement does not reflect poorly on a Texas bid.

I'm putting this on a 'talk' page rather than just annotating changes so that things can be clarified.

--Kovar (talk) 23:36, 14 August 2008 (UTC)Kovar

I deleted the Minneapolis and San Jose bids, as I can find no evidence thay they exist -- and I looked hard. They aren't on Chaz Boston Baden's list of bids, they weren't mentioned in the Denvention newsletters, Google searches found nothing, and posts to the rec.arts.sf.fandom newsgroup and to the WSFA and PRSFS email lists got no replies. Keith Lynch (talk) 01:51, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Minneapolis is a hoax bid; I've put in the correct information. San Jose had announced and no on on the SMOFs list protested when the list of four bids was posted but removing it makes sense. Kovar (talk) 02:00, 17 August 2008 (UTC)Kovar

Anything new on the Texas bid? I know that the meeting was planned for ArmadilloCon but because of various things haven't tracked down the results. I'll do so later but thought it worthwhile to ask here Kovar (talk) 07:16, 19 August 2008 (UTC)Kovar
 * For the record, the Texas in 2013 bid formally launched at Anticipation in Montreal with the announcement that San Antonio was selected as the bid city. - Dravecky (talk) 07:23, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

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