Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dennis Sciama Memorial Lectures

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The result was redirect to Dennis William Sciama. The sources provided are either not independent, or not significant. Additionally, it can hardly be surprising that notable scientists speak there, it's in Oxford after all. If it were notable, there would be far more scholarly references. Ged UK 14:00, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dennis Sciama Memorial Lectures

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To my disappointment, I can find no WP:RS at all for this lecture series. Anyone have better results? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:55, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The forthcoming lecture is on the front page of the Department of Physics at Oxford. The 2006 lecture was delivered by Prof. Stephen Hawking and included international video broadcasts and had Jocelyn Bell-Burnell (discoverer of pulsars), Roger Penrose, Joe Silk (Savilian professor), Roger Davies (chairman of the department) and author Philip Pullman in attendance. The series is a notable occasion for international academic staff to meet with colleagues and discuss current research trends in broad terms, all the way back to 2003 (Institute of Cosmology & Graviation, University of Portsmouth). I would like to expand the article to detail the speakers and their lectures. 4DCat (talk) 01:10, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I find no results when searching for "Dennis Sciama Memorial" in GNews, GBooks and one paper in GScholar, taking one step further, no matches in JSTOR or Scopus. There seems no reason to expect the article to demonstrate sufficient impact on the historic record in order to meet WP:GNG in the near future. Fæ (talk) 01:36, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. -- Fæ (talk) 01:54, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Dennis William Sciama. There doesn't seem much to say other than that these lectures exist, and that's already in the article about the person. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 08:42, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree that such a redirect would be best, if the article is not kept. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:59, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- The article was only created 2 days ago, I am working on expanding the subject matter, conclusions and participants of these multi-institutional lectures. FWIW, they are notable in my field and I think this could become a good complimentary article (it seems a bit strange to put an honorary lecture series inside what is (currently) mostly a biography). 4DCat (talk) 16:23, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep — there are references and the lectures are by notable scientists. I have added information and references. — Jonathan Bowen (talk) 04:11, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Notability is not automatically conferred by attendance, for an event to be notable the sources (meaning more than college publicity) must demonstrate the impact of the event itself otherwise information about it would be better merged (depending on interpretation of WP:IINFO, one of the parent articles listed under Category:Culture of the University of Oxford may be suitable). For example a taxi driver may transport many notable celebrities over their lifetime, this does not make the taxi driver notable. Fæ (talk) 08:21, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: The article under discussion here has been flagged for {{rescue}} by the Article Rescue Squadron. SnottyWong ^verbalize 00:40, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Reliable sources to satisfy WP:GNG are not forthcoming. SnottyWong ^verbalize 00:40, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: wholly sourced to lecture-convenor's website. No evidence of substantive independent reliable sourcing from find-searches. Hrafn^Talk_Stalk^(P) 11:52, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per 4DCat's arguments. Notable people in the scientific world speak there, so it must be thought of as rather highly, and surely such event would be get coverage somewhere. Science might not be as interesting to the masses as a famous woman flashing her underwear at photographers, and thus doesn't have as many magazines and whatnot covering it, however its still notable. Dream Focus 00:59, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Google news archive search shows one result for "Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture". [1] Dream Focus 01:02, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.