Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shuang Wen

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. —Kurykh 00:39, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shuang Wen

This is an unsourced orphan biography of a living journalist. It has been tagged as orphan since November last year. Edits since the article's creation in July, 2005 have nearly all been tagging, wikifying and the like. I tagged it for proposed deletion on 17 July. The tag was removed on 22 July but no further edits were made.

And so we're here.

I suggest that we either source this article or delete it. --Tony Sidaway 21:02, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

• weak delete there is no provision to delete for the absence of sources. What I think is intended, is that there are no sources to demonstrate the notability of the subject, which seems perfectly true, and is a good reason to delete, unless they can be found. Ic an find nothing on Google News, and nothing that seems relevant on Google, but it's a commonly found name.DGG (talk) 23:15, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

  To clarify: I don't care about "notability", a weak and vague idea that has somehow gotten a grip on a lot of editors who should really know better. What matters here is verifiability, which is solid policy. Without sources we simply don't have a Wikipedia article that conforms to Wikipedia's most basic policies. To claim that we can delete an article because it doesn't pass some idiotic "notability" test but we cannot delete an unverifiable article is to stand Wikipedia policy on its head. --Tony Sidaway 23:33, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Articles about minor Chinese journalists writing magazines in Chinese are utterly unverifiable (IMO barely escaping {{db-nocontext}}) and unexpandable if the page author doesn't bother to provide the name in Chinese and the journalist is not widely noted in English sources. Impossible to guess how Shuang Wen writes her name, so instead I tried looking for the magazine. Came up with nothing useful for a few variations of literal translations of "Hotfoot" in Chinese on Google, as well as searching on the English title but restricting to Chinese pages. cab 23:56, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Delete per lack of significant coverage from independent sources. Corpx 02:26, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
• Weak delete per Corpx. Bearian 22:59, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:BIO _{(and dare I say WP:BLP...)} --Aarktica 20:19, 31 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.