User talk:Avsmal

June 2013
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Nomination of Computer Science in Russia (symposium) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Computer Science in Russia (symposium) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Computer Science in Russia (symposium) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   07:52, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Recommendations for coverage
Hey, I just had a few recommendations. You or someone else has probably thought of this already, but I'll suggest them anyway:

Have you thought about writing to applicable magazines? For example, writing to PC World and seeing if they would be interested in writing an article about the conference or about one of the people responsible for running the show about their duties? It's mainstream, but mainstream is good because it helps get the word out. Be careful about them just reposting press releases, as that can't be used as far as notability goes. Wired and Cutter IT Journal are another two places to check out. You can also see if some of the newspapers in Russia would be interested in writing an article about it. It's not exactly as exciting to the mainstream populace as a comic book convention, but you'd be surprised at what newspapers will cover. You can also try looking into getting some of the local news stations to film spots as well. It'd be local coverage, which can often be considered to be a depreciated source, but every little bit would help. Now when it comes to student newspapers, those aren't as usable unless they're by a very reputable newspaper such as the one for Yale University. They're something to try, as sometimes they'll cover academia related subject matter that others wouldn't.

It'd also be good if you can find a known programmer or computer scientist that isn't affiliated with the conference that could write an article up. The big issue here is to ensure that they're someone that's considered to be an absolute authority, so you can't go with just anyone. That's sort of the difficulty with anything that's considered to be a WP:BLOG type source. Either they're in enough doubt to where they wouldn't be usable or they're so much of an authority that they're too busy writing papers to really help write an article.

In any case these are some ideas. Again, they've probably been bantered about, but I wanted to throw them at you just in case. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   18:24, 26 June 2013 (UTC)