Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pan Lei

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 Keep. Great # 8 23:28, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pan Lei

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my prod was removed because the person was "going out on a limb" and thinking that no one would put in a 300 year old poet if he wasn't notable. Well, two things to say about that: 1) It could be a non notable poet that was simply a favorite of the article's author and/or 2) if the poet is notable, nothing is said about it in the article. In fact, nothing is said about the poet at all except the barest of facts. As far as we know, Pan Lei existed and we know when he existed. Sheer existence isn't enough to establish notability. Postcard Cathy 02:59, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 13:00, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 15:15, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 15:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep - Over on the Chinese wiki he has a slighly larger article, http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BD%98%E8%80%92 . Anyone who speaks better Chinese available to comment? Burzmali 15:24, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep and tag as expert-needed until someone who knows more about Chinese literature can take a look at it. Chubbles 22:03, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

It has been around for more than a year. How much longer do we wait? I think it has been long enough! Post card Cathy

I think it will be a lot easier to get information from someone who knows more about this with a tag on it. I'm posting a notice on WikiProject China, as well. Chubbles 23:40, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

• Keep - I added the English language refs I could find. There are more refs in Chinese, but my Chinese skills are not good enough and some are inaccessible without a subscription.--Danaman5 03:23, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

With the changes that have been made to the article, I drop my push for deletion - it does seem this poet is notable. Cathy

• Keep - Notability has been shown since listed for AfD. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 04:03, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. Yawn. Do deletionists take the time to research things before tagging them... uh.. nope! Psssst. hey. There's this new invention called Google Scholar & its fatter & dumber buddy, Google .. but don't spread that around... deletionists might run out of things to do... Ling.Nut 15:32, 16 July 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.