Talk:José dos Santos Ferreira

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The content is based on the inscription found on a statue of Jose dos Santos Ferreira in Macau. As such I believe it is in the public domain.

Deletion
I have deleted the proposal for deletion tag placed on this page by User:Oo7565.

I admit that the article is skimpy and does not give sufficient sources. These are both glaring faults with the article.

However, the grounds given for deletion are WP:Bio -- that is, lack of notability -- not lack of sources or poor writing.

José dos Santos Ferreira may not be well known in the halls of Hollywood or other bastions of Western entertainment or culture. To say that he is "non-notable", however, is quite clearly a misapprehension. The man has a statue erected to him in a public place in the Macau SAR. It is difficult to see that there is a prima facie case for deletion of a biography when the person in question is notable enough to have a statue erected in a public place. Ade may have been writing in a language that is not very well known and is probably dying, in a territory that does not make a very big splash in the Western world. He is, however, an important symbol of a cultural tradition in Macau, and for those who care about Macau's culture and history, his memory is worth keeping alive.

It is for this reason that I have deleted the proposal for deletion tag.

Bathrobe (talk) 06:00, 3 February 2009 (UTC)