Talk:List of ICON science fiction conventions

(How many)

It looks to me like there are at least five science fiction and/or gaming conventions called ICON, ICon, Icon, or some similar version of the same thing. A Google-search for [icon convention] also gives me:

• http://icon.sf.org.nz/ The 2005 National SF convention in New Zealand.
• http://www.rpg.co.za/ A big roleplaying convention in South Africa.

I know very little beyond the output of that search, and I don't know if these other conventions are annual or not, but I suspect that they are.
-Semisomna 23:50, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation

1. The accompanying article is not a Dab page.
2. Main-namespace disambiguation pages may never belong to Category:Disambiguation; typically they belong to Category:Disambiguation pages, but they get there by containing {{Disambig}} (or one of its variants).
3. I've made an expansion to Icon (disambiguation) that permits Icon (disambiguation)#Science fiction conventions to serve the function that ICON would serve, if it were not a Rdr, whenever a lk to ICON in a SF sense needs to remain unbypassed.
4. The distinction between a Dab and an article (including a SIA) is extremely clearcut, so that conversion of the accompanying article content to Dab content would entail:
   1. Standardizing the lead to "ICON may refer to:"
   2. Discarding the external lks secn and the links themselves
   3. Discarding the 4th & 5th entries
   4. Reducing the prose in the first 3 entries to what reasonably is useful in helping the user recognize which ICON they are looking for -- i.e., "Iowa", "Stony Brook, New York", and "Tel Aviv" respectively, possibly plus, for each entry, "since" and a year
   5. Adding entries, at least for "Unisys ICON" and "International Council on Nanotechnology"
5. Although a case could be made for separating a Dab ICON from Icon (disambiguation) (and crosslinking them from their "See also" section), IMO the odds are against the separation persisting.
6. It is far-fetched that a Dab with a parenthesized title-suffix other than "(disambiguation)" would avoid being merged.

--Jerzy•t 20:08, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

History glitch

Perhaps i'm too compulsive, and i went wrong in finding an edit. I overlooked some edits (clearly in good faith, and non-controversial IMO and probably others') that best can be seen in this two-edit diff.
--Jerzy•t 22:27, 15 March 2010 (UTC)