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Systemic Design Association

Hi Randykitty and happy new year. Thanks for your cleanup work on Systemic Design Association. I'm reaching out as you removed two tables that list past conferences and publications organized by the association under WP:NOTAWEBHOST.

FWIW, I created this as a new article modeling after other academic associations like Design Research Society mostly, but also referencing Digital Games Research Association, and Association for Computing Machinery. These kinds of tables are common for academic associations and IMO show legitimacy and whether the society is active or defunct.

The RSD symposium series has been running annually since 2012 with peer-reviewed proceedings (ISSN 2371-8404), and the special issues table documents the association's collaborations with established academic journals like FORMakademisk and She Ji. This seems analogous to how DRS documents their conference series and publications. I understand concerns about promotional content, but these tables are sourced and document verifiable scholarly activity rather than advertising. The information helps readers assess the organization's scope and activity level, which is relevant for an academic association article.

Would you be open to discussing what modifications would make this content acceptable? I'm happy to trim or restructure if there are specific concerns about the format or level of detail. Alternatively, if you think this content fundamentally doesn't belong, could you point me to representative articles that reflect your perspective on how academic association articles should handle documentation of their symposia and publications? Thanks for your time, and I appreciate your perspective on this. UnkleFester (talk) 16:15, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

• Hi, thanks for reaching out. First of all, my very best wishes for a Healthy and Happy 2026! As for those other articles, see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS (less reverentially aka WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS) and also WP:NOTADIRECTORY. Rather than taking those other articles that you mention as justification to include tables of meeting venues (which I think is trivial and absolutely boring), those articles should be cleaned up, too. Here are some examples of articles on scientific societies that organize annual meetings and have publications, but don't have such lists included as that info belongs on their ow websites: International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society, Behavior Genetics Association, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and many more. I hope you'll agree that those articles (while certainly not perfect) look more encyclopedic. The lists of meeting venues can simply be replaced with a single sentence ("The society runs an annual meeting" with the meetings page of the society given as a reference). That way, if a reader is interested in, say, where the meeting was organized in 2021 or when the meeting was in San Francisco, that info is just one click away. Of course, if there is (sourced) information about something interesting happened at a certain meeting (like the first meeting of IBANGS), that info can still be included. Hope this helps. --Randykitty (talk) 09:48, 1 January 2026 (UTC)