Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nyima Gyaincain


 * 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. clear consensus  DGG ( talk ) 23:00, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Nyima Gyaincain

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No proof could be found of the scholar's notability per WP:NACADEMIC. Article has been created in the same period with The Historical Status of China's Tibet, which has already been nominated for deletion, as well as Chen Qingying, another Chinese scholar writing about Tibet. Creation of these articles may be related to discussions regarding the validity of sources at Talk:Dalai Lama and Talk:14th Dalai Lama. Regardless, Google Scholar shows little significant results about Nyima Gyancain, and me and user have expressed doubts as to whether the scholar and his institution are real on the talk page. Farang Rak Tham (talk) 07:24, 7 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. Farang Rak Tham (talk) 07:55, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been mentioned at WikiProject Tibet. Farang Rak Tham (talk) 07:55, 7 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete. No biographic information exists about this person, besides the fact that he/she is attributed the co-authorship of a book called "The Historical Status of China's Tibet" published in 1995. No information available about his/her birthdate, gender, languages spoken, academic background, publication list, conferences, current or past academic affiliation, etc. We don't even know if this person does really exist, or if it is a name given as coauthor for an official publication. This article was created as a copy/paste from the French Wikipedia article about this author, an article that was in-between removed. Erroneous biographic information previously appearing in this article was retrieved from a Chinese microblogging profile, according to which Nyima Gyaincain would have been aged 14-15 year old when his/her only work was published... Nyima Gyaincain is a very common name, so there might be hundreds of homonyms. I have meanwhile made a cleanup of the alleged biographic information appearing at Wikidata.--Tiger Chair (talk) 08:05, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. There is nothing substantial in RS about this person. One could say it should be deleted per WP:One event, however the book is less than a notable event. My very best wishes (talk) 14:37, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Is borderline hoax. There's no solid evidence of notability. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 16:50, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. I see no evidence of notability, solid or otherwise. MacPraughan (talk) 18:43, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Questionable notability and no enough sources to confirm importance. --TV Guy (talk) 06:48, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment. As it was already assumed from the total absence of evidence of existence, Nyima Gyaincain is indeed a fictional name. The creator of this page was blocked for edit warring and later permanently blocked for abuse of multiple accounts. He has left behind him a track of disruptive POV edits that still require a general cleanup.--Tiger Chair (talk) 12:39, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:BIO1E as nothing other than the credit for authoring a book is verifiable; I'm still not certain whether this is a real name or a pseudonym. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 15:49, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect to his/her book The Historical Status of China's Tibet. Verbcatcher (talk) 18:20, 10 October 2017 (UTC)


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