Talk:Yuanling Yuan

Notability?
Much like Qiyu Zhou, I question the notability of this article. Another Canadian junior who has won lots of age prizes but nothing actually notable. The author of this article wrote a German version of this then contacted the subject. After the player blogged about that wiki, this English version was created. It gives an indication of potential conflict of interest and bias. Jkmaskell (talk) 08:54, 27 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Highest Chess Rating of a Candian woman in history. She won the Canadian chess championship for women many times and plays board 1 for the Canadian national team. And these are not junior achievements. I have never met Yuanling Yuan. There is no information in this article provided by Yuanling Yuan, the entire content is sourced. "The author" has an active Wikipedia account and I find it rather impolite not to contact me when publishing suspicions and accusations. --Gereon K. (talk) 19:16, 27 July 2016 (UTC)


 * The correct place to start a discussion is this page, not your Talk page, because it is about her notability. You may not have met her but she does mention you. Parts of this article which should be sourced are not. I have read a list of Canadian Women's Champions and she does not appear, though I concede she does appear on the same site as being the highest rated at the end of the respective years. Her highest FIDE rating of 2270 is beaten by Quyi Zhou who has reached 2305. You may mean national ratings but its not the same thing and in terms of a bold claim like that, the expectation by the average reader would be the FIDE ratings. Do we have a source on the 2016 Women's Olympiad team? Jkmaskell (talk) 20:42, 27 July 2016 (UTC)


 * I stand corrected: she had the highest FIDE rating of a Canadian woman. Does that make her less notable? No. She played at the olympiads in 2008, 2010 and 2014. In 2010 and 2014 at board 1. For 2016 there is for instance this source. So if highest rated player and board 1 of the national team is not notable enough for you, what is? --Gereon K. (talk) 21:21, 27 July 2016 (UTC)


 * My opinion is that Chess Olympiad players are notable, assuming they meet WP:GNG (essentially that WP:RS say something encyclopedic about them). Many chess editors do not agree that Olympiad competitors are notable for that reason alone, although I don't think I'll ever understand how removing articles on Olympiad players could improve the encyclopedia unless it was impossible to reliably source the article. Quale (talk) 04:40, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Did we ever agree a notability guideline at WP:CHESS? If not we should! We could add it to WP:NSPORT. I agree that Olympiad appearances should be sufficient for notability. --Pawnkingthree (talk) 20:24, 8 August 2016 (UTC)