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as I said in declining an earlier prod on this article, "Moonie offshoot though it may be, it's notable" Obviously, there will be NPOV issues involved in an article on this, and possible blp issues involved in characterising the nature of any individual's participation. But we can deal with them
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promised on the article's talk page on 13 June 2008 to add other such material as soon as his Amazon order arrives. The nominator for AfD of this article either didn't read this on the article's talk page, or decided to nominate it anyway, for whatever reason. In any case the AfD is premature.
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These conferences attracted top scientists, including nobel laureates. I have just restored and added sourced material referencing this, which goes to notability.
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reliable enough sources for you? It only takes a few seconds to do a Google News search that would have avoided the need to argue this out at AfD.
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As I said on the article's talk page, I'm in the process of finding more sources now. (p.s. I didn't contribute to the original article.)
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