Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liu Qichao


 * 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   keep. No arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:04, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Liu Qichao

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Is this musician truly notable? When I conducted a Google search, there appears to be very little about him, and most of the pages that were in fact about him were mirrors of Wikipedia. Delete. --Nlu (talk) 16:37, 19 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep He appears to be a rather important musician who played a role in the musical development of the zheng instrument and of Asian-American musical culture as a whole. Silver  seren C 18:35, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:06, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. The sources in the article, those found by the Google Books and News searches linked in the nomination and others found by demonstrate that the subject is a leading exponent of his genre. I'll leave it to those with a better reading knowledge of Chinese than I have to evaluate these sources. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:10, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per both Phil Bridger and Silver seren – Voceditenore (talk) 14:17, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.