Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shen Junshan

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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 — Caknuck (talk) 18:17, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Shen Junshan

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Article subject is not notable--Fahrenheit451 (talk) 01:40, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Delete. There may be notability here, particularly if the subject has published works or research from his time as a professor at the university. I can find no evidence of this, but sources may prove me wrong. UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 01:42, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. -- Pete.Hurd (talk) 05:21, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • keep article claims that he was President of one of Taiwan's "most prestigious universities". I find some on-line sources to back up the claim (e.g. [1]). that's good enough for me for now. Pete.Hurd (talk) 07:57, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep, as per Pete Hurd. Article is indeed not notable as it stands, but as President of a major university, the subject is. Article needs expansion and sourcing. --Crusio (talk) 10:07, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep as president of a major university. I added the Chinese version of his name, as it was listed in the NTHU article (after checking Google to be sure that the names actually matched), and linked that article to this one. If someone here can read Chinese, this page at NTHU seems to be about him. His book (ISBN 957560749X) also appears to be relevant, perhaps a memoir; it's gone through two editions. Despite being in Chinese, is in several American libraries, and has about 3k Google hits when searching for its Chinese title and author [2]. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:22, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Taiwan-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:37, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep I expanded the article based on various Chinese sources. Notable for his political as well as academic roles. Unfortunately I'm completely clueless about Taiwan politics, but he seems to be important given that he's compared to someone like Lien Chan and called one of the "four princes" of the KMT. cab (talk) 06:41, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep presidents of major universities are notable, DGG (talk) 23:58, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
    • I agree (see my keep above), but at this point, after cab's improvements, I think notability is obvious per WP:BIO without having to resort to generic arguments such as this. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:06, 6 January 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.