Talk:Symposium on Combinatorial Search

This is my second attempt to get an article about SoCS, the Symposium on Combinatorial Search. The first time it was deleted, the reason being the lack of references. I tried this time by adding important keywords which are linked to other subjects in the wikipedia; besides, I do also provide external references to the archival proceedings. While extending the previous contents of the same wikipage I tried to mimic the contents and organization of other conferences such as the European Conference on Machine Learning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECML_PKDD

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because <replace these words with your reason>. — Carlos Linares (talk) 14:00, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi there, if you check the discussion panel you'll see I post the following:

--- This is my second attempt to get an article about SoCS, the Symposium on Combinatorial Search. The first time it was deleted, the reason being the lack of references. I tried this time by adding important keywords which are linked to other subjects in the wikipedia; besides, I do also provide external references to the archival proceedings. While extending the previous contents of the same wikipage I tried to mimic the contents and organization of other conferences such as the European Conference on Machine Learning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECML_PKDD ---

SoCS is neither a organization, or a corporation or anything like that. It is a scientific community that organizes international conferences. It is about Artificial Intelligence, and heuristic search in particular with connections to other fields. It is listed as one of the conferences on artificial intelligence in the wikipedia and there is no significant difference with other conferences that already have a page such as the European Conference on Machine Learning that I cited above.

I am a professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and all the people in the SoCS council are (without a single exception) professors in various universities around the world.

Sincerely speaking, I do not see a reason to delete this entry of the wikipedia ...