Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Scientific Conferences


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. J04n(talk page) 00:27, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

List of Scientific Conferences

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An indiscriminate topic with no inherent notability. As things stand, it is apparently being used as advertising for the sort of activity increasingly denoted by the term "Predatory open access journals" (a claim supported by consideration of who created the article -- a now-blocked sock of User:Scholarscentral). At bottom, a misuse of Wikipedia. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 21:19, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete with no prejudice against future recreation as a proper list. The current list of "selected conferences to be held in 2013" is a clear WP:NOTDIR violation and has no inclusion criteria; most of the conferences on the list seem rather minor (most haven't been held more than five times). Deleting the article wouldn't hinder anyone trying to create a replacement article that adhered to Wikipedia policies. Dricherby (talk) 23:42, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per Blow it up and start over. I've been watchlisting the related List of computer science conferences, which at least has something resembling inclusion and sourcing standards, and regularly have to revert spammy additions of unsourced conferences. The spam farm under consideration is what you get when those sorts of changes aren't reverted. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:45, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment. See also Articles for deletion/List of academic conferences and Articles for deletion/List of academic conferences (2nd nomination), two older deletion discussions on a similar topic. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:11, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete All of the conference entries I looked at have not yet taken place. Perhaps the inclusion criterion is "future conferences that I want to advertise", but neither the list entries nor the hypothesized criterion show any evidence of notability. With lack of reliable sources and a probable WP:CRYSTAL for most or all of the entries, this article should be deleted. --Mark viking (talk) 23:59, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, I don't think WP:CRYSTAL is the issue, here: I'd say that these events are "almost certain to take place" this year. Dricherby (talk) 00:13, 27 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete -- no inclusion criteria, no plausible value to anyone. --JBL (talk) 20:33, 28 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep --- As list of scientific conferences is very important to scientific community, I request you to keep this page and give me time to find references and edit the article as per guidelines.If a page is not to be created for conferences which are not organized yet..I will update the page with conferences which are already held..Platyone (talk) 10:17, 29 April 2013 (UTC) Struck comment of indef blocked sockpuppet. Dricherby (talk) 07:24, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a calendar for academics. In any case, a simple list of conferences is of little use to the academic community, since academics know the conferences in their own fields and there's usually somebody within any given field who maintains a list of conferences on their own web page, along with important information such as submission deadlines which wouldn't be appropriate on Wikipedia anyway. Conversely, the overwhelming majority of academic conferences are not notable in the sense that Wikipedia requires so there is no scope for the article to be anything more than a huge list of conference names. And that's before we ask about what the inclusion criteria would be for this list. Dricherby (talk) 11:10, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete As I argued when I PRODed this article, while the sponsoring organizations of these conference may (or may not) be notable, not every meeting that they hold is notable. This is simply WP:LISTCRUFT, and possibly an attempt to use the list to promote certain conferences.  (I note among the list several conferences promoted by OMICS Publishing Group, an organization that has been relentlessly promoted by a sockfarm of WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Scholarscentral.  CU has already determined that  has used at least one other account based on the current SPI.)  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 12:18, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment As the creator of this article has been blocked as a sockpuppet, perhaps WP:CSD also applies here.  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 14:18, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The only "keep" vote above comes from another sockpuppet now blocked. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 05:39, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete It's a viable topic. But it should mean list of notable conferences with articles in Wikipedia-- which won't be many individual conferences, but can and should include articles on conferences held in series with a common title, of which there are many notable ones--though so far we have written very few articles. As for the present article, it's worthless as it stands, for reasons explained above.  DGG ( talk ) 02:53, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
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