Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shengzu Gu


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The result was Delete. czar ⨹   06:35, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Shengzu Gu

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WP:BLP of a professor, just asserting his existence as a professor and failing to make or source any claim of notability that would actually get him over WP:ACADEMICS. Was previously tagged for speedy, but that was declined by another admin as "making a claim of notability" — I don't actually see one myself, but regardless of any pointless debate about whether it's really claiming enough notability to survive a speedy, it certainly isn't claiming enough to escape the AFD process. Delete unless a more substantive claim of notability and some real reliable sources can actually be added. Bearcat (talk) 19:12, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  Everymorning   talk to me  23:52, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:26, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:27, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Delete. The article says so little about the subject that this could plausibly be an A7 speedy deletion. Google scholar gives him an h-index of 11, not enough to convince me of notability via WP:PROF, and anyway even if the number were higher we'd still need to find something nontrivial and sourceable to say about the subject. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:04, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment. The article easily surpassed the standard needed to avoid A7 before most of it was (rightly) removed as a direct copy from his resume. And I would expect GScholar to substantially underestimate the h-index of a Chinese academic at a Chinese university whose research is almost entirely about China, particularly when apparently using only the English version of his name and (presumably as a consequence) only finding works in English - one would expect the bulk of the subject's publications to be in Chinese. And if, as the article previously slightly cryptically seemed to list, he is a member of the current Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, he presumably meets WP:POLITICIAN (and probably WP:PROF). However, without reliable sources (to at least verifiability standard) for at least some of the detail in his resume, all this is unfortunately rather beside the point. PWilkinson (talk) 14:38, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 19:23, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTWEBHOST. We are not Linkedinpedia. Bearian (talk) 20:48, 4 December 2014 (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.