Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Qu Leilei

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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 --- Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 19:03, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Qu Leilei

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Notability appears questionable. Delete unless notability established. --Nlu (talk) 04:30, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep While the article needs improvement, the subject appears to have been a member of "The Stars Group of Artists". See here. This group apparently was instrumental in the fight for artistic freedom in Communist China and attracted over 200,000 people to their exhibits. More in depth research is needed, but this article could definitely be improved. KnightLago (talk) 16:58, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Weak Delete. Might conceivably be notable but neither the article nor a quick google search turns up any evidence (or reliable sources). Eluchil404 (talk) 04:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep This AfD is one of a series of similar AfDs, and the first two I reviewed and researched seem to have been quite inappropriate. It takes a short time to create an AfD, and then many editors have to spend time to keep it. If the first two AfDs had been more reasonable, I'd be more inclined to examine this one in detail. What's clear to me with this artist, from a brief search, is that Wikipedia is poorer without the article, and in no way is it improved by deletion. --Abd (talk) 02:27, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Author of 11 books on Amazon (I edited the article) more than enough to indicate notability to me.Dimitrii (talk) 13:37, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment: though article needs to be moved to Qu Lei Lei to be consistent with common western spelling (contrast this spelling) and could use considerable expansion, individual seems notable. I'm about to add some of the references I've found to the article and would request as a courtesy that this AfD delay closure at least a few more minutes until I have a chance to see how much is out there that can be used. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:34, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. I've added additional sourcing to this, enough to convince me that it meets WP:BIO for creative professionals in that his work has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition & has won significant critical attention. Further, the "star group" of which he was a founding member seems highly significant, even though it doesn't seem to be on Wikipedia yet. (Note photographs in this article.) I think he qualifies as notable. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:22, 19 March 2008 (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.