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The result was no consensus.  Sandstein  09:14, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

FinCon[edit]

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No coverage in RS. Fails WP:GNG. Greenbörg (talk) 17:14, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Keep. FinCon is the biggest conference of its size and generates noteworthy attention from the media and business communities. According to a Google News search, the conference has over 1,600 recent relevant mentions. Here are recent mentions in Forbes, Huffington Post, CNBC, and a couple of mentions at Time Money. --Eric (talk) 17:26, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Forbes and HuffPost are blogs, and the CNBC is 3 words in a caption.  When I look at it, the time.com webpage is almost blank, and neither Bing nor Google have a cache.  I was able to see the time.com page at web.archive.org, but there was nothing about FinCon, just some links to about half a dozen articles.  As for the Google News, the number I got was 241 Ghits...you have to force Google to display the last page before you will get a good number.  And they weren't all "relevant" mentions, as there were many irrelevant hits such as FinconAfrica, a mobile games app startup, pages in Chinese, 18th annual insurance conference, and press releases.  Unscintillating (talk) 21:30, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:24, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:24, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:33, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete  Fails WP:V#Notability (WP:DEL7 IAR).  It is hard to find WP:GNG sources, in part because it is a conference training people to write "financial blogs", so many related articles are blogs.  There are many name conflicts such as a wellness conference in Idaho, and the annual insurance conference now in its 18th year.  I only saw one hit in Google books, and it attracts remarkably little local press as the conference moves from city to city.  It is hard to tell at this point if notability is increasing.  Unscintillating (talk) 21:30, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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