Talk:International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because, as I noted here an hour ago... this is not a corporation page. It's an organization of linguistic scholars in Northern Europe who hold academic conferences on the history and grammar of English. They've played a key role in the creation of the field of corpus linguistics in the 20th century, a precursor to today's big data analytics.— Preceding unsigned comment added by LingLass (talk • contribs)

Contested Questioned deletion

This article should maybe not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it gets hits in Google Scholar. I am not saying that it definitely is notable, just that it might be. I recommend to check before deleting. It may be a poorly referenced article on a valid subject. I see that the author is adding references now so it may be better referenced than it was when first tagged for deletion and could be even better soon. It is not my subject area so I can't judge how strong the references are but it does seem worth checking this out. It doesn't look like a speedy deletion case any more to me. --DanielRigal (talk) 23:16, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

I've reviewd the references, and to be frank, they are indeed quite weak. Most are little more than a brief, passing blurb. One is even a description of another reference! I don't have access to the print references, but I fear that they likely suffer the same problem. Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) ^{may the force be with you} 07:01, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... seriously, cut this out! This groups is a legitimate academic consortium that has been influential in the field of corpus linguistics for the past 30 years. It's made up of Norwegian, Swedish, British, and American scholars who work together to gather and analyze samples of English in order to have a better sense of its changing grammar. They've been hosting conferences and an academic journal on English corpus linguistics for decades, and are responsible for a great deal of work on ground breaking corpora. None of this is in contraindication of Wikipedia's rules--I've reviewed the field guide. In fact, ICAME are highly valued and notable in the discipline for breaking ground in the capturing of text in digitalized form. I've worked all day to track down solid sources to back this up. They are cited in academic journals and books, which in turn are cited on Google Scholar. Their corpora are used in university labs and classes around the world. This entry is long overdue to be tied to other entries such as the Brown Corpus, Geoffrey Leech, and corpus linguistics. Leave this entry alone!----Ling.Lass