Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chinese Cultural Fever


 * 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. Liz Read! Talk! 08:34, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Chinese Cultural Fever

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WP:DEL #14 — WP:NOTESSAY. This is not a Wikipedia article. This is written as a persuasive essay. It's even written in the second person at times. Before nominating it for deletion I tried to stop and think about whether or not the page is salvageable, if it would maybe be possible to rewrite it into an encyclopedic article, but this is nothing more than a poorly written essay or blog post which occasionally tries to cite sources and does so inadequately, only using them to verify certain factoids or statistics rather than the actual content of the article.  Vanilla  Wizard  💙 08:33, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions.  Vanilla  Wizard  💙 08:33, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete I think the topic is probably worthy of an article, but this article is so bad that WP:TNT is the most appropriate action. Chagropango (talk) 13:09, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Rambling, unfocused, with no clear topic at all. I assume that as this appears to be an English translation of a Chinese term, there must be a definable concept that could be written about encyclopedicslly, but this isn't it and it would need a complete fresh start. Mccapra (talk) 17:46, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete TNT this whatever it is, it needs focus and a rewrite. Oaktree b (talk) 17:50, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per all of the above. The article makes no sense; it is a hodgepodge essay that is essentially gibberish. What is particularly alarming is that if you start reading academic texts, such as the first page of the Zhang article, "On Some Motifs in the Chinese 'Cultural Fever' of the Late 1980s" on JSTOR (visible in preview mode), you'll see that the phenomenon they are referring to as "Chinese cultural fever" is something else entirely...and I would argue, if you wanted a Wikipedia entry on the Chinese 'cultural fever' of the late 1980s that these scholars are referring to, it probably should be called something else. For that reason, I don't think a TNT rewrite could save this; it's just a straight delete. Cielquiparle (talk) 08:47, 22 November 2022 (UTC)


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