thanks for sharing Alan. the discussion around the article was a fascinating read. congrats to those involved in working through the process to enable this article to exist.
Joe Alan Fletcher <a...@well.com> wrote: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/International_Conference_on_Condensed_Matter_Nuclear_Science_(2nd_nomination) > >The result was keep. WP:FRINGE does not neccessarily exclude a topic from >inclusion into Wikipedia. However, I do not think fringe applies in the way >we'd all like it to. Despite being a fringe science, Cold Fusion actually >serves a prominent place in popular culture, science fiction, and fringe >science alike. A conference on the subject would not neccessarily fall to the >levels of fringe, then, as would a conference about Hollow Earth. From a pure >WP:GNG standpoint, this AFD has resulted in a huge improvement to the article >which makes me question at least some of the delete !votes which prempted >these improvements. In fact, most of the !votes came before these >improvements. Taking into the fact that the new references were highly >discussed on this AFD before being introduced to the article, though, means >that I cannot discount those votes on their timing alone. Several folks have >said that WP:GNG is not met if the sources are not about the conference. I >quote GNG "Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention but it need not >be the main topic of the source material." The only other argument to delete, >then, is that the coverage is not significant enough to write a decent article >but the current version of the article defeats that argument as well. Thusly, >I see a discussion that has stronger arguments towards keep. If it were a >!vote count, this may be a no consensus. But as an examination of the >argument, we have a keep result. v/r - TP 7:06 pm, Yesterday (UTC−7) > >[ By an administrator ] >
