Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hackcon

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 --Haemo (talk) 03:50, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hackcon

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Disputed prod. NN security conference with no WP:RS references, whose primary assertion of notability appears to be that MSFT put up a banner at the conference once (note: MSFT may buy ads at virtually ever security conference. And?). Not one news reference found. Baleet! --- tqbf 01:04, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

• Delete: Per nom, does not appear to be notable. Here's a G-news search (as nom stated, 0 results) for reference. - Rjd0060 01:13, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
• Delete No reliables. Twenty Years 13:49, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per everyone.--h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 12:27, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Hackcon hasn't been discussed much in newsgroups, because most people are starting to use blogs instead. That's why there aren't any hits in Gnews. If you do a regular search in Google you can see that there are 1200 articles containing references to Hackcon. Not all of them are for our conference, but almost all of the ones with the most relevance are. Most of them are in norwegian since the conference is held in Norway (mostly norwegian people atending), but there are also more and more international atendees. Blogs regarding Hackcon can be found here, and you will find 610 hits. The conference has been held only 3 times, so there will be more and more references to it. DaSpork 21:03, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I wish you the best of luck with the conference. When it has been held enough times to have multiple references in reliable sources, you can easily re-create the article. Until then, notability and verifiability are cornerstones of Wikipedia. --- tqbf 21:06, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Well.. Since Wikipedia needs more that small conferences can give (we have a limit on attendees to get quality, not quantity), we might not meed the demands Wikipedia have as a minimum. I thought references to several companies was enough (but since the editors of Wikipedia haven't heard of the norwegian companies, they don't count), and we don't get international press-visitors, the demands might be too much.. Sorry to hear this, because I thought Wikipedia was for all countries, not just the english-speaking countries.. So do what you must! DaSpork 09:35, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Do you have reliable sources in some other language to present? It doesn't look like it. Sourcing is the issue here, not language. --- tqbf 13:27, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

weak keep. It appears to have some sources. Suggest giving the author more time to add sources to his page. Also, I'm fairly ignorant of the international community. I suggest giving the author more time to flesh out what may eventually be a good article. --Othtim 15:31, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Respectfully: the author of this article --- an SPA --- has a disclosed financial interest in the article, and the sources are both WP:SPS and advertisements. I don't want to chase anybody away from en.wiki, but WP:ISNOT a crystal ball. This article should be deleted now, and re-added if Hackcon ever attains notability. Nobody has shown any verifiable evidence that Hackcon is notable now. --- tqbf 03:43, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.