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The result was keep. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:41, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Zhang Yueran[edit]

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The award and magazine used to support notability are both redlinked, and don't seem particularly notable. She is mentioned only in passing in the New York Times essay. Her name has only 1760 ghits, and the magazine that she won an award in has 621. Prodego ^talk 01:32, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete only minor passing ref - no evidence of notability per our standard for authors. Eusebeus (talk) 02:40, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. The fact that the competition and magazine are red links reflects on our poor coverage of Chinese topics, not on the notability of this article subject. According to the second of the references already in the article the competition is "the Olympics of Chinese writing" and the magazine has a circulation of 400,000. A Google News search finds substantial coverage in independent reliable sources such as this 1,100-word article and this statement that the subject enjoys "a celebrity status usually reserved for pop stars". If we're going to get into counting Google hits then these also need to be considered: [1][2][3]. Phil Bridger (talk) 09:46, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. —Phil Bridger (talk) 10:17, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• For reference, the zh Wikipedia article isn't much better. It's just three sentences plus a bibliography. No vote 121.72.218.112 (talk) 13:17, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Copy-paste the Chinese name into the Google box and notice the Deutsche Welle, People's Daily, China Radio International, etc. hits in the very first page of results. This does not require any knowledge of Chinese ... cab (talk) 03:20, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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