Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrea Pasinetti


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The result was keep. Daniel (talk) 22:10, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Andrea Pasinetti

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Looks like a self-pub promo – no evidence of notability. Most references are to self-published sources. The subject was once featured 8 years ago on ChinaNewsweek, an obscure website no longer in existence, obviously unrelated to the Newsweek. The subject's sole claim to importance is that he has been the founder of the non-profit organisation Teach For China, whose article was speedy deleted from Wikipedia three times as promo. — kashmīrī  TALK  09:40, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. —  kashmīrī  TALK  09:40, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. —  kashmīrī  TALK  09:40, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The article is a detailed four-page profile of Andrea Pasinetti. The article notes from Google Translate: "When he was studying in Princeton, Andrea Pasinetti was an Italian-American with a cleanliness habit. Living things are required to be very clean. Even if you are on a business trip for a day, you will bring a box of shirts, and the clothes you wear are neatly folded and stored in your suitcase. Now he often travels between cities and mountain villages in China by various means of transportation that he has never seen before. Andrea Pasinetti's habit of cleanliness disappeared as soon as he arrived at a rural school, rolled with dusty students, and lived in a damp and dark dormitory with a local teacher."  The article notes: "Unlike famous college dropouts Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, Pasinetti is not interested in building a fortune with his own business. He has a very different story to tell, starting from when he left Princeton University without completing his degree. ... Since 2008 he has endeavored to change the future of rural children with his Teach For China program, styled after the Teach For America program, which sends groups of graduates from top universities to classrooms in underprivileged areas. ... In 2005, a language program brought Pasinetti to China for the first time. He was then studying public and international affairs at Princeton. He returned to China in 2007."  The article notes: "Even though Pasinetti was born in Los Angeles and grew up in New York, he's adopted China and hopes to make Teach for China "an enduring Chinese institution.""  The book notes: "Like Teach for America, Teach for China's story starts with an ambitious Princeton student who became obsessed with an issue while working on an undergraduate thesis. In 2007, Andrea Pasinetti was enrolled in a year-long Chinese language program at Tsinghua University in Beijing while conducting research for his thesis on China's New Socialist Countryside Campaign. Although Pasinetti had visited China once before, he admits [quote from the 2013 article by Xiangrui Liu in China Daily]". He progressed very quickly from knowing nothing about rural China and Chinese education to founding an organization and deciding upon a program strategy that would remain in place for 10 years to date. While enrolled in the language program, he visited a school to which a friend of his had provided financial support. What he experienced there inspired him to establish Teach for China, or what was then called the China Education Initiative. ... In 2008, Pasinetti officially founded the China Education Initiative in collaboration with Rachel Wasser, a recent Yale graduate who was also studying Chinese in Beijing (Wasser, n.d.), and Hu Tingting, a Tsinghua graduate who was Pasinetti's Chinese teacher (Pasinetti, n.d.). Andrea Pasinetti served as CEO of Teach for China from its founding until he resigned and enrolled in an MBA program at Stanford University in 2018."</li> <li> From Google Translate: "Andrea Pasinetti, one of the founders, is an Italian-American born in the 1980s. In 2007, in his early 20s, he also studied at the Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and applied to the IUP Chinese Center of Tsinghua University to study Chinese. American teachers gave him the Chinese name Pan Xunzhuo (weibo), while friends are accustomed to calling him "Xiao Pan" affectionately. While studying in Princeton, Xiao Pan accidentally saw an article about the development of China's rural areas. With a huge population and a huge area, how to use a unified policy to develop such a vast area, which aroused his interest. So, he began to pay attention to China's New Countryside Movement. After studying at Tsinghua University, this became his research direction and the topic of his thesis."</li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Andrea Pasinetti to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 10:08, 18 July 2021 (UTC) </li></ul>
 * The subject received significant coverage in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2020. The subject received significant coverage in international sources outside of China in The Christian Science Monitor and in a 2020 Routledge book. Cunard (talk) 10:08, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I think you misread WP:NBIO - the policy does not mean that anyone who has been interviewed by the media once or twice should automatically receive a Wikipedia article. — kashmīrī  <sup style="color:#80f;font:'Candara';">TALK  09:40, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
 * There is enough non-interview coverage in the sources to establish notability per Notability and Notability (people). Cunard (talk) 11:24, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

<div class="xfd_relist" style="border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 25px;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   10:08, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep  per the sources found by User:Cunard showing that he passes WP:GNG. VocalIndia (talk) 10:50, 31 July 2021 (UTC)


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