Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gong Shengliang

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The result of the debate was KEEP. IceKarmaॐ 04:33, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gong Shengliang

• The creator of the page has previous soapbox tendencies. He has an extensive history of selectively including information to push an agenda.152.163.101.11
• Keep. This article has a valid point. And apart from the minimal biashes, which can be easily edited out, the article is fine.
• Delete Unless the person in this article is a notable political prisoner, I can not see a reason for keeping this article. I mean we just can not have an article for every non notable political prisoner can we? Abstrakt 17:35, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, political prisoner. We seem to be keeping individual cricket matches these days. Sdedeo 19:25, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
    • Uhm, there's a pretty massive resistance against all that cricketcruft, and this has literally nothiung to do with sports. Motivate
      • Actually, previous discussions on cricket matches have resulted in a community decision to keep them. ··gracefool |☺ 17:00, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The article says he was "sentenced to death in 2001, but because of international pressure, the sentence was reduced to life" in prison. "International pressure" would imply some notability, and google does find lots of hits. Jonathunder 17:40, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Google turns out lots of hits (which corresponds to "international pressure" and notability). In addition, the fact that Chinese embassy spokesperson had to explain rational for detaining Gong Shengliang [1] verified there is significant "international pressure". --Hurricane111 23:48, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
• Very weak keep per the last two posts, although I don't find all political prisoners notable. Wikipedia is not a forum for advocacy. Perhaps it would better meet prevailing Wikipedia practices if government thugs had dragged this person off from a cricket match. Barno 07:48, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This is very obviously about promoting an anti-PRC agenda rather than informing about a notable persons life and achievements. This person is no different than any number of political prisoners. Wikipedia is not a soapbox. / Peter ^Isotalo 13:14, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Keep Can I ask for a removal of the afd message ? This was written by an admin.

Sarcelles 22:19, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

• please do not try to remove the afd message, Sarcelles please refer to the deletion process.
• Keep, although the sources/references should be provided in the article. --Vsion 06:02, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Assume ill faith since creator has proven record of pro-Falungong POV pushing on de, fr, it and en wikipedia. Banned for such activities on de, fr and (I think,) it. Too many dissidents and political prisoners in China to be notable. Also, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Xiong Wei. --Miborovsky 20:02, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, the article should be kept based on it's potential merit, not the motivation of the originator. ··gracefool |☺ 17:00, 25 September 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.