Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian Hioe


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The result was delete. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 11:30, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Brian Hioe

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Article has 11 sources listed. Several of those do not mention Hioe, most others are by Hioe. That leaves one or two where an article of Hioe is cited. None of the sources discusses Hioe in depth. Does not meet WP:GNG, WP:ANYBIO, or WP:JOURNALIST. Randykitty (talk) 09:54, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist  (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 10:08, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist  (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 10:08, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Taiwan-related deletion discussions. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist  (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 10:08, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

I am deleting my original comments here ... and have apologised to the editors below, in a separate talk page discussion. MatthewTStone (talk) 23:08, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment. Please comment on the arguments, not the person. I'm not even going to answer your silly accusation. Thank you also for the useful geography/policy lesson, but I think that ever since Trump's phone call with the Taiwanese president in the days after the US elections, only somebody who's deaf and blind is not aware of the difference between Taiwan and China. In any case, whether I am biased or not is irrelevant. All you have to do to make people !vote "keep" here is to produce reliable sources independent of the subject that show that he meets WP:GNG. Soon as you do that, we're done here. --Randykitty (talk) 20:59, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Deleting my other comment as per note at the top of the thread MatthewTStone (talk) 23:10, 16 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete There's nothing in the article or the argument above that demonstrates notability as outlined in WP:GNG, WP:ANYBIO, or WP:JOURNALIST. The New Bloom magazine (http://newbloommag.net) is a bilingual blog with barely any readership (most posts in either language have 0 comments/retweets). "It is unusual, being a centre-left publication in a traditionally somewhat right-wing country" is actually an argument for deletion per WP:UNDUE and WP:POVPUSH. Notice the article of Michael Turton, the only "notable" person who has commented on Hioe's work, was also created by the same editor, as was the only "notable" person who has commented on Turton's work, J Michael Cole. Cannot help but suspect some kind of WP:ADVOCACY here. Timmyshin (talk) 21:11, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete running a throughly minor "magazine" does not make someone notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:14, 20 January 2017 (UTC)


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