Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chengyue


 * 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.--Tikiwont (talk) 13:03, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Chengyue

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A good faith search for references found only mirrors and links to mirrors. Fails WP:V and WP:N. Contested prod Jeepday (talk) 01:19, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as unverified despite Jeepday's effort. Handschuh-talk to me 02:33, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete: Too little context; that is unverifiable context. - Rjd0060 04:45, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, the article as it stands provides less than rudimentary information and we have nothing to lose by deleting it, and could be a hoax which we're better off without altogether. If you want to write an article, cite your sources and make it a bit longer than this at the very least.--h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 07:38, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's possible there are few or even no sources in English, but there are in Chinese, and it's hard to look it up without knowing how to write his name in Chinese characters. However, I see he isn't included in zh:Category:明朝詩人, the Chinese category of Ming dynasty poets, or zh:中国历代诗人列表, a list of Ming dynasty poets. He wasn't in my big Chinese-English dictionary that includes most of the "we learned about him in school" people from Chinese history. I don't know where else to look so I'd have to say delete at least until some reliable sources in some language are found. Also, note that the contributor 's only other edits were vandalism to Milpitas Unified School District, in California (around the same time), so it's not improbable this is some California schoolkid joke that has survived on Wikipedia for two years, while Wikipedia claims not to be for things made up in school one day. In which case, good catch, Jeepday. (If nothing substantiating is found, be sure to delete the entry in the List of Chinese language poets, the only mainspace oncoming link.) Rigadoun (talk) 08:52, 16 November 2007 (UTC)


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