The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 13:25, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
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This page lacks significant coverage in reliable, independent source to substantiate notability per WP:GNG and is not verifiable per WP:V. Specifically:
1) Of the sources cited in the article, the only ones that actually mention the Tuidang movement are:
- The archived webpage for the listing of the Tuidang movement on the www.placestogoinnewyork.com website. This is self-published and not an RS.
- The Tuidang Homepage. This is self-published and not an RS.
- The Epoch Times. This is not an independent RS for political controversies involving Falun Gong (see the consensus on this issue in the discussion here).
- Scholarly articles quoting the Epoch Times, where the Epoch Times quote is the part that is being used in the article (e.g., Patricia Thornton, Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China in "Popular Protest in China").
- an article in The Christian Science Monitor written by a former Epoch Times reporter and admitted FLG activist. The problems with the independence of an article written by a self-admitted Falun Gong activist are self-explanatory.
2) The remaining sources on the page do not mention the Tuidang movement, but are instead related to the 'Nine Commentaries' and the oppression of Falun Gong in general. Separate articles already exist for both of these subjects which contain all the subject matter discussed on the Tuidang movement page.
3) A further search as part of WP:BEFORE brings up only sources quoting the Epoch Times or Falun Gong activists.
4) As a final note, whilst we cannot edit original research into pages on Wiki, anyone with knowledge of China will find the idea that 300 million people, or even 195 million, have quit the communist party (or even simply declared their opposition to it) patently ridiculous, since its membership is much less than both of these figures and these figures would constitute 20-30% of the population of the PRC. However, at the very least we can say that the claim that there is a movement within Chinese society to quit the Chinese communist party is an extraordinary one, and as such (per WP:FRINGE) requires more to substantiate it than is presented here. Evidence of individual people quitting the CCP is not enough, since there is no sign that they do so as part of any movement. FOARP (talk) 14:27, 3 December 2018 (UTC)