Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kevin Lau


 * 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. T. Canens (talk) 23:57, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Kevin Lau

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Non-notable Chiropractor lacking GHIts and GNEWs of substance. Claim to fame is self-published non-notable book and "people's choice" award. Appears to fail WP:BIO.  ttonyb (talk) 14:50, 21 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete Non notable - only claim of notability (award for healthcare provider of the year) turns out to be a "readers choice" email from one person. 7  09:53, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * That seems to be a miss-statement, if referring to this source, which is a Straits Times article/column. It refers to nominations for that award being by email, and quotes from an email or two.  That does not mean the person was voted for by just one person, it simply means the nomination was received by email.  The Straits Times is one of the leading newspapers in Singapore. --doncram (talk) 19:53, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * This is not a vote. Please re-read the whole article before claiming I am misinformed.  I have now read it twice.  The Best Health Care Provider awards issued by the Straits Times went to three doctors mentioned in the top section:  Dr Lau Tang Ching, Dr Benedict Tan, and Ms Jeanette Jackson-Yap.  Not to Kevin Lau.  After the main section of the article, in the readers choice section, it clearly indicates that the single letter referring to Dr. Kevin Lau was one of the top four selected from "about 100" letters sent in by readers across for all health care providers in the area.  It does not indicate whether or not there was more than one letter for any provider.   7  23:05, 22 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep Appears notable; vote for Delete above seems mis-informed. --doncram (talk) 19:53, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment – Regardless of the newspaper's status, I fail to see how a "people's choice" award comprised of "about 100" popularity votes would make one notable. Please help me understand how this might be "non-trivial" coverage or an award of substance.  ttonyb  (talk) 22:58, 22 June 2010 (UTC)


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 * Delete pending some further showing of notability. The "readers choice" award doesn't seem to be "a well-known and significant award or honor" (per WP:ANYBIO). According to Amazon, his book is published by CreateSpace, which is a vanity press. Media coverage mentioned in the article might suggest that he is on his way to notability, but I'm not sure he's achieved it yet. According to the article, his name is "劉子傑". I get 27 hits on google news archives . Courtesy of google translate, I can tell that most of them are about athletes (two on a baseball player, the rest on a basketball player), except these:, , , which are clearly not this guy. (The name translates Liu Zijie). --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:03, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Singapore-related deletion discussions.  cab (talk) 10:14, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete no actual coverage in either English or Chinese, either by GNews or by directly searching in newspaper websites (like Lianhe Zaobao in Chinese, Straits Times and Channel NewsAsia in English). I read Chinese and can confirm that the hits pointed to by Moonriddengirl are about different people with the same name (which is rather common, especially among Cantonese-speakers). cab (talk) 10:14, 28 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Please see the notable articles that suggest Kevin Lau to be an important and significant figure in both nutrition and spinal correction http://scoliosis.com.sg/media-appearances.html. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.157.187.133 (talk) 18:15, 28 June 2010 (UTC)  — 124.157.187.133 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * http://scoliosis.com.sg is his own website.  7  22:45, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
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