Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Helmholtz Prize

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The result was merge to International Conference on Computer Vision. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:03, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Helmholtz Prize

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This article was dePRODed by its author. While this prize may well be notable, there are concerns that insufficient third-party sources exist in order to comply with Wikipedia's notability criteria for stand-alone articles, and where the named recipients may not be notable according to WP:BLP, WP:LISTPEOPLE, and WP:NLIST. One solution may be merging to the main article at IEEE Computer Society. See also: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PAMI Young Researcher Award. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:23, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Notability of the named people shouldn't matter; WP:LISTPEOPLE merely requires a reliable source saying that people belong on the list, and WP:NLIST is concerned only with stand-alone lists, while this is an embedded list in an article (barely) rather than a stand-alone list, so it defers to WP:Source list, which like WP:LISTPEOPLE, merely requires that the information in the list be verifiable with reliable sources. ––Agyle (talk) 04:05, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 04:04, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

• Delete Merge to International Conference on Computer Vision#Awards. Fails WP:N. This is not an easy topic to research. There are at least two other Helmholtz Prizes: one for Physics, awarded at least into the 1980s, which may be related to a Helmholtz Prize awarded in the same field by the Prussian Academy as early as the 1910s, and one for Distinguished Research in the Cognitive Neurosciences, awarded by the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute. After trying to find a mention of IEEE's Helmholtz Prize, I noticed at the bottom of the article that it's only been called that since last year, and before that it was the "Test of Time Award", which is the same name for awards given by many other organizations in many varied fields. While other Helmholtz Prizes and Test of Time Awards do seem reasonably notable, there is little WP:RS reliably-sourced information about the ICCV's award other than from the IEEE itself. Note also that this seems to be one of at least five different annual awards given at the ICCV (see list), and that other computer vision conferences (ECCV, AFCV's ACCV, IAPR's ICPR, IEEE's CVPR, etc.) also seem to give out lots of annual awards. In my personal experience, nearly all annual conferences in all fields give out awards...it's just one of those conferencey things to do. Given that this award is only open to prior paper presenters at the ICCV, it's insular, as seems common with conference awards. I can't find anything suggesting this award is particularly notable in the WP:N sense, even giving some allowance for its being in a specialized field of computer science. ––Agyle (talk) 04:05, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Changed from delete to Merge, as per Eppstein's suggestion. ––Agyle (talk) 21:51, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

• Merge to International Conference on Computer Vision#Awards. I could not find the independent sources that would justify a standalone article, and IEEE Computer Society is far too broad a merge target. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:38, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

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