This article was nominated for deletion on 19 November 2011 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.
A fact from WikiConference India appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 November 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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requires that there is significant coverage in reliable sources. But all we have here is incidental coverage in minor publications. To put it another way, if this conference wouldn't be related to Wikipedia but say would be a conference of cancer researchers or economists, would we cover it? Almost surely not. Should go to AFD once it is off the main page. Pantherskin (talk) 12:59, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Please see WP:NOTABILITY - you need to provide evidence of significant coverage. Press releases, and being mentioned in an event calendar do not make the cut. There also appears to be a conflict of interest, not to mention that we usually avoid self-reference on Wikipedia. Can you provide any source that this event is more significant and notable than any of the thousands of conferences going on in each and every month around the world? Pantherskin (talk) 17:14, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'd suggest a restructure once the 2012 event is scheduled, confirmed and has been commented on by the press. As with Wikimania each year would get a section, but that structure wouldn't make sense as long as there is just one year. ϢereSpielChequers05:21, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
WCI 2012 is still a year away :), and we don't know whether we'll have another one (hope we do have). In short, whatever WhereSpielChequers said. Lynch712:30, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support for name retention and restructuring after 2012 Conference announced vide WereSpielChequers. Each Conference need not be a separate article, no particular encyclopedic value or individual notability for each Conference. AshLin (talk) 16:54, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
There are four references and three photographs of Mr. Wales. Isn't that a little too excessive? Though Jimmy Wales is a notable participant, he is internal to Wikipedia; so is Barry, can't we have less of him and more of other external notable participants? Yogesh Khandke (talk) 02:21, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Last edit was was mine, forgot to sign in, this is to explain post-edit the removal of the COI tag, any person from India could be potentially related to the conference just as user:ansumang was, he rubbished the coi allegation in the deletion discussion, the tag didn't deserve to be there and so has been trashed by me.user:ansumang has created the page; that is why I am mentioning his name here. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 03:56, 15 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]