Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science


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The result was Delete. Fram (talk) 14:43, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

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This is a minor conference on one side of a debate at the fringes of science, cold fusion. We recently deleted a timeline of cold fusion at Articles for deletion/Timeline of cold fusion, largely because it gave undue weight to the pro-CF side; this does the same. In addition, there seem to be no significant sources independent of the conference and the small band of CF proponents. This is not in any way a significant conference. Guy (Help!) 12:12, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Listed in WikiProject Academic Journals/Deletion. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:10, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Not sure why any and all traces of an international event that discusses Condensed Matter Nuclear Science must be wiped out. Notability seems clear. Alansohn (talk) 04:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * All traces wiped out? That's a very strange way of saying it - we mention it at cold fusion, so it's hardly wiped out. This is a conference of fringe advocates which has, as far as I can tell, no significant coverage outside of the world of those fringe advocates.  The article appears to exist solely in order to boost the apparent significance of that fringe view. I don't see it's any more notable than this or this  Guy (Help!) 09:47, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete and then perhaps turn into a redirect to cold fusion. What coverage I can find is in publications which appear to have "got religion", so to speak (Infinite Energy Magazine, New Energy Times, ZPEnergy etc).  I'm frankly surprised by this; I would've at least expected some coverage in the "comic cuts" sections of journals less engaged in polemics.  As it stands, if one ignores the list of times and locations of past events, all that is left is that this is a conference which people interested in cold fusion attend, which is pretty much covered at cold fusion. --Sturm 10:53, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:FRINGE. Bearian (talk) 20:24, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * WP:FRINGE addresses theories, not events. Alansohn (talk) 20:31, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * WP:FRINGE addresses coverage of fringe and tiny minority points of view. An article on this very small conference exists only in order to promote a minority POV - we typically do not have articles on annual gatherings of a few people engaged in some fringe subject. Guy (Help!) 10:58, 21 February 2008 (UTC)


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