Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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The result was keep. John254 00:08, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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I think this fits CSD A7, but am not 100% sure. So I'll list it on AfD instead. --MikeVitale 17:10, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:N. Does not qualify for CSD A7 because it is a question of notability. NASCAR Fan24^{(radio me!)} 21:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Being the leading conference in the field of Artificial Intelligence in Europe does qualify for notability, I should hope.  --Lambiam 22:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. 11 scholarly references give support for lumping ECAI in with IJCAI and AAAI as the major AI conferences. Likely some of these could be used as reliable secondary sources here. —David Eppstein 23:09, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
  • A more in-depth reliable secondary source: Laine, Tei (1998), “Logic, ontologies and mental states – report on the ECAI-98 conference”, AI Communications 11 (3–4): 229–232, <http://iospress.metapress.com/link.asp?id=mbnjfy2d0325lr2a> . I haven't tried to access the text of this report yet, just its abstract, but it looks very relevant. The same journal issue has more reports also on ECAI-98, and a later report on ECAI-2000. —David Eppstein 00:23, 5 October 2007 (UTC) On more careful inspection, this source is not secondary: it is in a journal sponsored by the same society as the conference. —David Eppstein 20:53, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - seems to be OK. The thing to watch out for with things like this is which side they fall on the borderline between being an academic society (good) and an industry lobbying group (could be bad). They do publish journals and proceedings of the conferences, and from looking around the various websites, including the one of the last conference (see here), this is good stuff. Also, it has been running for a long time, which is usually a sign of notability. Carcharoth
• Keep. Long-established academic conference with more than national impact. Maintaining articles on such conferences is particularly important as they are vehicles for publication of research which might be referenced in the encyclopedia; as with academic journals, including articles on major conference series is therefore critical in assisting readers to evaluate the trustworthiness of sources. Espresso Addict 07:22, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

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