Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Vuylsteke


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The result was keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 03:50, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Richard Vuylsteke

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Not quite sure what he is (academic? diplomat?), which is itself a bad sign, but occupying positions in various organizations doesn't make him notable. Fails WP:GNG. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:38, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Hong Kong and Taiwan.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 16:51, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. The subject passes Notability (people), which says: "People are presumed if they have received significant coverage in  that are,  of each other, and .If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not usually sufficient to establish notability." Sources   The article notes: "When Richard Vuylsteke arrived at the East-West Center to begin his new job as president, he garnered a bit of attention for the haste at which he moved into the position. He landed in Hawai‘i from Hong Kong on Dec. 30, 2016, and insisted on starting the job by Jan. 1, 2017. ... Throughout his career, Vuylsteke has constantly been on the move. He’s had a varied career that spans industries — including the military, academia and journalism — and most recently was president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. But his appointment at the East-West Center is something of a full circle — Vuylsteke was a research assistant there during his time as a graduate student at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in the 1970s and 1980s. ... Vuylsteke grew up in Illinois and spent a year in India as a Fulbright scholar and three years in the Army before coming to University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa as an East-West Center scholarship recipient for graduate studies in Western and Chinese political philosophy."  The article notes: "The East-West Center Board of Governors announced Friday that Richard Vuylsteke, an East-West Center alumnus “with extensive experience throughout the Asia-Pacific region,” has been named as the next president of the institution. ... Vuylsteke was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Rajasthan, India. He earned his Ph.D. in Asian and Western Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Hawaii Manoa."  The article notes: "Vuylsteke (pronounced VUL-stek) has had a global career that has carried him through universities, journalism, the military and the business world. He recently left his post as president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong to assume leadership of the East-West Center, whose mission is to promote cross-cultural understanding and dialogue among Asia, the Pacific and the United States. Vuylsteke is the center’s first president who is also an East-West Center alumnus." <li> The article notes: "When Richard R. Vuylsteke started his new role as president of the East-West Center on Jan. 1, he was returning to familiar territory. Vuylsteke was an East-West Center scholarship recipient in the 1970s while he attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Since his first stint at the Honolulu-based center, Vuylsteke’s career has led him to work in a variety of sectors including academics, business, government, journalism, NGO management, think tanks and most recently as president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong."</li> <li> The article notes: "The American Chamber of Commerce announced that Richard Vuylsteke, former executive director of AmCham Taipei, had been appointed its new president from today. He will succeed Jack Maisano, who had served as president since February 2005. The new president had been executive director of AmCham Taipei, Taiwan's largest and most active foreign business organisation, since August 1999. He also taught for four years at the US Foreign Service Institute school, and was senior editor of the Free China Review, now named the Taiwan Review, for 12 years and wrote extensively for publications based in the United States, Taiwan and Hong Kong."</li> <li> The article notes: "Richard Vuylsteke, an Illinois College graduate and professor for the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, said he was not aware of how badly the fires had destroyed Lahaina until later into the night. He said the images of the community after the fires were "painful to look at.""</li> <li> The article notes: "Richard Vuylsteke has been the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei since September 1999. Tasked with keeping the Chamber functioning day by day, Vuylsteke's role is to keep the lobbying effort moving forward, coordinate with other members, and help people have fun. He spoke with special contributor Tim Culpan about the executive functions and workings of Amcham"</li> <li> The book notes: "According to Richard Vuylsteke, former senior editor at the Free China Review, pressure on adhering to the careful wording that was in line with government policy was much more effective for the newspaper, the Journal. Under the editorship of Vuylsteke, the Review was able to muster more freedom to push the limits. The editor recalls that they were the first ones to use the word martial law in print in a government publication instead of the phrase emergency decree, which nobody really understood the exact meaning of."</li> <li> The book notes: "AmCham head Richard Vuylsteke, who had direct contact with senior Taiwanese officials, continued to represent local firms that wanted more extensive liberalization but did not want to confront the government directly. He pointed out that “many companies have been spinning off divisions that concentrate on China operations and listing them on the HKSE. Others are delisting in Taiwan altogether. The main result is to sap the strength of Taiwan's financial markets" (Vuylsteke 2009; AmCham 2006). He attacked the TSU for preventing the CSTED from advocating closer economic ties with China."</li> <li> The book notes: "Small surprise, then, that returnees and newcomers are expressing appreciation of Taiwan's capital city. ... "It's improved significantly in the past fifteen years. It's a very livable city and it's much more affordable than Hong Kong or Tokyo." Richard Vuylsteke, a nineteen-year resident, agrees. As executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce, he describes the country generally as "one of the easiest places in Asia for an expatriate to live. Between 85 and 90 percent of those posted here would like to extend their stay.""</li> <li> The book notes: "Each time I visit the Republic of China in Taiwan I spend a few hours with a friend of mine, Richard Vuylsteke. Richard has devoted the past thirty years to the study of Chinese culture, and his writings on the subject regularly appear in the Free China Review. During my most recent trip I was talking to him about the traffic in Taiwan and my failure to understand what was going on in the streets. To me it was utter chaos. To Richard, however, Taipei's traffic is just another example of how Chinese thought patterns and their physical manifestations differ from those of the West. He pointed out that local traffic is totally understandable once you view it in the light of Taoist doctrine."</li> <li> The article notes: "He was an East-West Center grantee in the 1970s, earning M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, specializing in Western and Chinese political philosophy. He has taught courses at the University of Hawaii and Chaminade University in Asian history and social, political and legal philosophy. Vuylsteke has served as president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, president of the American Chamber in Taipei, editor-in-chief of the Taiwan Review, and area studies coordinator for the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute in Taipei."</li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Richard Vuylsteke to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 00:12, 18 September 2023 (UTC) </li></ul>
 * Keep, the current page is anaemic but notability is determined by the existence of sources not their use in the article and Cunard seems to have unearthed enough coverage to get us over the GNG bar. Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 16:53, 22 September 2023 (UTC)


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