Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eurocomb

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Delete when searching https://www.google.com.hk/#q=Eurocomb&tbm=nws I am not able to find widespread coverage. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 15:43, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 01:57, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 01:57, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 01:58, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

• Keep. "Delete when searching" is not a valid (or even comprehensible) deletion criterion. Searching does indeed find several mentions of the conference, under both the abbreviated and full names. At worst, there should be a merge with European Prize in Combinatorics. -- 101.119.15.104 (talk) 07:13, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

::Actually it is a perfectly valid reason for a deletion rationale when you read the rest of the reason. I said that "Delete when searching https://www.google.com.hk/#q=Eurocomb&tbm=nws I am not able to find widespread coverage" (thus saying that it fails notability guidelines) I put a link to indicate and show the result I was getting so others could see what I was seeing...Hell In A Bucket (talk) 10:36, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

::: Apparently you meant to say, "Delete: when searching I am not able to find widespread coverage". Praemonitus (talk) 01:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

::::Well that at least makes sense. Perhaps the reason the nom found nothing is that they were using Hong Kong Google (going by the link provided). The regular Google links above find lots of stuff, especially when you also use the full name. -- 101.119.14.80 (talk) 00:05, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

• Keep or Merge to European Prize in Combinatorics. Eurocomb gets 772 hits on GScholar and "Eurocomb" -wikipedia gets 247 hits in GBooks, so the papers at Eurocomb do get some coverage. The conference has special issues devoted to it in the European Journal of Combinatorics, for example, [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1196034&picked=prox Eurocomb'03] and [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01956698/33/5 EuroComb '09]. The European Journal of Combinatorics is a peer reviewed journal and notable in itself. So the conference series as a whole has coverage in multiple reliable sources. If you think that the European Journal of Combinatorics is sufficiently independent of Eurocomb, (it looks that way to me) then this is sufficient for the topic to pass notability thresholds per WP:GNG. If not, per WP:PRESERVE and WP:ATD-M, basic facts about the conference are certainly verifiable and merging of verifiable information is preferred over deletion; the European Prize in Combinatorics, which is awarded at Eurocomb, seems the best target. --Mark viking (talk) 11:36, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
• Keep - change search domain from "News" to "Web" and I can see plenty of hits. Gandalf61 (talk) 14:39, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

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