Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Danqun Fang


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The result was   delete. Deleting as a copyvio. This should not be considered reflective of the individual's notability or lack of it. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:18, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Danqun Fang

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Notability is not clearly established, and the body of the article is so ponderous and poorly written, that I wonder if it can reasonably be repaired. Few citations exist, and at least one of the seven references is a dead link. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 04:50, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm neutral, but sheesh...TNT this thing. Aside from the lead section, the article looks like nothing but a very long copypaste job.  Erpert  WHAT DO YOU WANT??? 07:10, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
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 * Comment It looks like a copypaste of this from Baidu or the other way around; and from his online resume. Confirmed he is/was Professor at Northwest University (China). (primary source) His Chinese name is 方丹群. His English name is sometimes "Dan Qun Fang" (or "Dan Q. Fang"). His resume claims "The national postal service issued his portrait of commemorative stamps." .. that's a good sign of notability but don't know to confirm. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 18:22, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
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 * Uncertain Delete I have spent a lot of time researching Chinese-language sources via Google Translate, since there is very little on this topic on English-language sources. My conclusion is that is a long-time professor at a Chinese University who has a good reputation there for work done earlier in his career in certain fields. Some of the claims are inconsistent across sources so I'm suspicious of the reliability of these claims, probably based in fact, but trumped up. The Chinese sources point to his US work as being notable, his US sources point to his Chinese work. The claim that he was on a stamp is interesting, but stamp collectors are pretty good about documenting and I could find no evidence that the "national postal service" issued him on a Chinese stamp, though who knows. This AfD really needs someone who reads Chinese. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 19:37, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
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