Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew Tang


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 01:47, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Andrew Tang

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This article fails to meet Wikipedia's guidelines on biographies of living persons. Sinusulit (talk) 22:25, 30 November 2017 (UTC) — Sinusulit (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.


 * Keep – Any chess player at Grandmaster level should be automatically notable, just as any Olympic-level athlete is presumed notable. See ongoing proposal at WT:WikiProject Chess. — JFG talk 22:38, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:10, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:13, 1 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep Grandmasters should be presumed notable.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  00:08, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep Grandmasters are notable by virtue of being grandmasters. Hrodvarsson (talk) 00:48, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep as per above Thalium (talk) 07:19, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep I think we have a SNOW close. South Nashua (talk) 14:12, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep Clearly notable. Shellwood (talk) 21:24, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep per SNOW. I won't perform a non-admin closure, because as the creator of the article I'm not an uninvolved editor. Chessrat  ( talk, contributions ) 17:20, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete it is high time we stop presuming noability in the face of a clear lack of sources.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:14, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep but rename so a disambig page is at Andrew Tang; this is a fairly common name and there is no primary topic, WP:TWODABS. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 20:22, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep per the longstanding consensus that Grandmasters are notable; here is confirmation he has successfully earned the title.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 20:58, 4 December 2017 (UTC)


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