Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/German Operations Research Society


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The result was keep. Davewild (talk) 20:32, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

German Operations Research Society

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No independent sources, no indication of any notability. Doesn't meet WP:ORG or WP:GNG. Randykitty (talk) 17:38, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep I've linked it to the German article here (de:Gesellschaft für Operations Research) and it seems promising. I'm not familiar with the field of "Operations Research" but apparently it's a legit field, and countries with a surplus of money/caffeine have their own organizations that research operations, operate research or reoperate searches 24/7. There's worldwide conferences, journals, and an umbrella parent organization "International Federation of Operational Research Societies." I would imagine the German one is among the more prominent of these societies. —Мандичка YO 😜 18:49, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
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 * Keep. This suffers from the usual problems of articles on academic societies — they don't often write about themselves, when they do so the publications are often in society newsletters, by society presidents, or otherwise not sufficiently independent, and in any case these publications are difficult to locate among the much higher number of publications that mention the society only trivially as the publisher of something else. Nevertheless, I found and added two independent sources to the article, one from the Wiley library and one sourcing its membership as the representative of Germany in IFORS. I think as the main representative body for its nation in a major academic discipline (the subject studied by entire university departments) I think it is sufficiently notable. The article is badly sourced, but that can be solved by trimming it back to only the material that can be properly sourced. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:10, 9 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep per David's source finds and the independent sources in de:Gesellschaft für Operations Research. Operations research is definitely a real field of study, although it used to be bigger than it is today. The independent source finds show marginal notability, and the fact that this is a bona fide national organization contributes to notability per WP:NGO. --Mark viking (talk) 00:22, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
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