Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guo Ma

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.

The result was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 05:30, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Guo Ma

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This has been hanging around for months without being sourced. At the moment fails WP:V. Delete. BlueValour 00:29, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

• Weak keep. It appears that Personages of the Three Kingdoms are notable enough to warrant articles, and since this is one such person, we ought to keep. I agree that sourcing (and cleanup) are necessary, but I'm no expert on the Three Kingdoms, so I can't help with that. --N Shar 00:49, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete I did a search for references to save the article and came up empty. Fails WP:V and WP:N Jeepday 03:52, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete I can't be sure whether any of this really happened, and that's the problem. YechielMan 05:32, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete I can't find any references whatsoever. Perhaps the romanization is wrong, but even if this is real, there's not too much content to lose. --Gwern (contribs) 05:46 14 February 2007 (GMT) 05:46, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep per N Shar. Added Chinese name to the article so it would be easier for someone else to expand. cab 06:58, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per YechielMan and Jeepday, and because many of this user's articles have been deleted for this reason before. Add into that that I wonder if the name is even correct based on the same user's previous article naming. -Yupik 15:40, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Very little context, fails WP:BIO and as mentioned by the nominator it fails WP:V.Tellyaddict^{Editor review!} 16:54, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Appears to be a very minor character in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms per this page, but not mentioned in the Sanguozhi (which contains historical bios of personages of the Three Kingdoms area) and no biographical information about him is included even in the Romance itself (which is based on historical events but also on folklore). I'm unable to find any significant mention of him anywhere, and can't even verify whether he's a historical figure or a fictional one (the Romance includes several entirely fictional characters). Suppose a note about his revolt could be merged to a Personages of the Three Kingdoms, but I don't see anything to hang an article on. Shimeru 17:27, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletions. --   ⇒ bsnowball  13:10, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
• keep "article is stub" is not a valid reason for deletion.  ⇒ bsnowball  13:10, 16 February 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.