Talk:SWAT and WADS conferences

Notability
I do not know if that provides evidence of notability, but the three invited speakers for 2009 are surely notable computer scientists: bearing his name; See also Karp's 21 NP-complete_problems Hermel (talk) 15:25, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Erik Demaine, "reportedly the youngest professor in the history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." DBLP record
 * Richard Karp, with the Edmonds-Karp algorithm, Karp reduction and the 1962 Karp-Held algorithm for solving the Traveling salesman problem
 * Christos Papadimitriou, "Papadimitriou is the author of the textbook Computational Complexity, one of the most widely used textbooks in the field of computational complexity theory." Among other things, invented PPAD (complexity)


 * Notability aside, I am a bit worried about whether there is enough potential for an interesting article. To be honest, most articles on computer science conferences provide little information that cannot be replaced with a link to the latest CFP and a link to DBLP. Is there anything interesting to be said about WADS? And is it possible to find independent sources? Computer science conferences are not covered that often in national newspapers, for instance. A simple alternative would be the following: compose an annotated list of theoretical computer science conferences, and create a separate article only when we already have something interesting to say about the conference. — Miym (talk) 16:16, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree, and I can imagine of what kind such information could be. For example, ICALP covers three subareas, the third being devoted to some hot topic. This year the third track switched from crypto to network models, see the article there. This might be noticed by regular contributors and/or be announced at the conference homepage, but a few years later this might be interesting information that already disappeared from the CFP (jargon translation for the wider public out there: "Call for Papers"). As another example, it might be lesser known that the well known FOCS conference formerly had the name "Symposium on Switching and Automata Theory". By the way, the EATCS Bulletin often contains reports from conferences. This can both serve as source of information about a particular conference, and as (how strong?) indicator of notability. I will refrain from creating articles like this one in the near future; but I would hesitate to delete articles on (sufficiently notable) conferences just because they are stubby at the moment; I would rather wait and see.Hermel (talk) 22:04, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

New name?
I like the idea that we cover both SWAT and WADS in this article. But should we change the name of this article accordingly? Perhaps something like "SWAT and WADS conferences" (naturally with all spelled-out versions of "SWAT" or "WADS" redirecting here)? — Miym (talk) 19:14, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. I'll tweak redirects and categories accordingly. — Miym (talk) 22:24, 4 November 2009 (UTC)