Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2016 Chinese memes war on Facebook


 * 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. I note that since much of the argument is predicated on the poor quality of the article, the article may be recreated with adequate sources and no pro-mainland or pro-Taiwan bias Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:12, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

2016 Chinese memes war on Facebook

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This page should be deleted because the quality of this article is atrocious, and it is filled with grammatical errors, original research and nonsense, not to mention it contains personal attacks on the parties involved, and the page has not been improved despite the various tags. Lasersharp (talk) 23:33, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. Everymorning (talk) 00:27, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete. I doubt that this is a single event worthy of a separate article, but probably part of an ongoing series of arguments on the Internet between pro-mainland and pro-Taiwan Internet users which may go on for as long as the mainland and Taiwan are under different governments. This particular article appears to have been written from a pro-mainland perspective in violation of neutral point of view. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:52, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - This event received significant bi-partisan coverage in English media also, see Foreign Policy, Washington Post and CNN. The problem is there doesn't seem to be a term that describes the event in English, nor is the event prominent enough to warrant its own article here as mentioned by User:Metropolitan90. On the other hand, Merge is another option since this event took place as a response to the results of 2016 Taiwanese presidential election, perhaps some of the information can be incorporated into a "Aftermath" section on that page. Alex ShihTalk 14:34, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I notice that all three of the sources cited by Alex Shih indicate that this campaign was a reaction to the election of Tsai Ing-wen as president of Taiwan and don't even mention Chou Tzu-yu. Yet this article says, "The conflict was initiated when a Taiwanese teenage pop star Chou Tzu-yu waved the national flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in a South Korean TV show", and emphasizes the issue of Chou Tzu-yu waving the Taiwan flag much more than the election of Tsai Ing-wen in relation to this campaign. I don't really know what to make of this. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:28, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I didn't even notice the Wall Street Journal source in the article, which is much more comprehensive. I think this is a case of poor translation that led to misinformation. Chou's incident (videotaped apology) literally took place the day before the Taiwanese election. It was merely one of the reasons (this is stated in the Chinese page) that led to cross-strait exchange of trolling, and it is the trolling that led to the organizing of this (massive) Facebook trolling event. Alex ShihTalk 17:49, 8 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete. per WP:TNT.  Egregiously promotional in nature as-written, and likely not notable as a stand-alone event. Power~enwiki (talk) 02:00, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
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