Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/XXVIth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences

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The result was merge to International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences. Sandstein 10:20, 12 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

XXVIth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences[edit]

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Deprodded article on an annual gathering of of heraldists and genealogists which was held in Bruges in 2004. Nothing remotely indicates that anything notable happened at this meeting. Article has been edited only 10 times since 2006, and gets viewed less than twice a day. Abductive (reasoning) 04:36, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment How frequently somethings gets edited or viewed is not a valid consideration for articles one way or another. Our job is to be useful, not popular. A comprehensive encyclopedia is useful because of being comprehensive, and it is to be accepted that many of the articles will be little read or edited, probably in close approximation to the Pareto principle, also known as the 80-20 rule. DGG ( talk ) 05:06, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This one is at the most extreme end of the spectrum. Being viewed is a sign of interest. Having secondary sources is a sign of interest. These things are interconnected. Sometimes an article has a lot of page views but few secondary sources, but you will be hard-pressed to find an article with a lot of secondary sources and few page views. Try it. Abductive (reasoning) 05:14, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge all Merge this and the other individual conferences. Our practice is that something very special must be shown to prove an individual academic of semi-academic conference notable, like the Solvay conference. Normally rthe article should be about the series, as here. DGG ( talk ) 05:06, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is no encyclopedic content to merge, and the title of the redirect would be a highly implausible search term. Abductive (reasoning) 05:14, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge all per DGG. The date and location, at least, could easily be merged to a list in the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences article. Powers ^T 12:21, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge/redirect - it is reasonable to assume the conference received some mention in field-specific publications. However, there is no need for a separate article for each edition of the conference at this time. One article for the conference in general which mentions the individual one's date & an other relevant info is sufficient until that article gets too bloated & needs split. --ThaddeusB (talk) 20:25, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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