Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yuan Sheng

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

[edit] Yuan Sheng

The result was delete -- Anonymous DissidentTalk 08:09, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

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non-notable airline pilot who claimed political asylum for being a member of Falun Gong and for trying to persuade airport staff to leave the CCP. Stripped of hits to Falun Gong related websites, Yuan Sheng scores 236 Ghits. There are hits to the original syndicated news story about the defection soon after he landed, but many of the hits are unrelated, or for namessakes. Ohconfucius 06:45, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete - despite not giving it a fair chance in Google (you put quotation marks around the name and then listed a load of other jargon) this person still fails WP:BIO. Lradrama 09:07, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
    • Those other jargon are narrowing terms, to remove websites which fall outside the bounds of WP:RS. Also putting the name in quotes is standard practise, otherwise you'd get everything with the word Yuan or Sheng anywhere on the page. cab 09:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletions. cab 09:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep and cleanup by removing unverified information, or information sourced to Epoch Times et al. Taking out all the FLG websites still leaves you with a decent amount of coverage from real newspapers in Chinese or English, e.g. BBC Chinese[1], Orange County Register, [2], Ta Kung Pao (an HK newspaper) [3], etc. cab 02:08, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment whilst not exactly identical, the 3 sources above were about the same event, with slightly different angles, and would fall to be treated as "one coverage", thus failing WP:BIO. Ohconfucius 09:28, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
    • Changing vote to delete per WP:BLP1E, etc. Ohconfucius was right, I jumped the gun when I saw even the BBC picked up his story and I figured it was important enough to generate ongoing coverage. But after searching a bit more, what's already in the article is all that WP:RS have to say about the man, and no journalist seems to have bothered to follow up on him. cab 10:45, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.