Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shun Au


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The result was   delete. Courcelles 00:01, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Shun Au

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Unable to find any reliable sources independent of the subject to verify the contents of the article in order to assess notability. The subject has published a paper but I can find nothing written about the author or the paper. Does not appear to pass WP:GNG or WP:AUTHOR. J04n(talk page) 23:58, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  — J04n(talk page) 23:58, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions.  — J04n(talk page) 23:58, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete The claim of an OBE is questionable in the absence of references.--RadioFan (talk) 01:58, 6 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete The claim of an OBE is in fact true (London Gazette Issue 58014 published on the 17 June 2006. Page 9 of 28 shows Shun Ying Au, Chair and Founder, Chinese Mental Health Association. For services to the Chinese Community. - however, I do not feel that being an OBE is sufficient cause for inclusion. Assuming I counted correctly, in that one honours list, there were 227 people who received the OBE To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order - some of them are notable (such as Charles Dance, Andrew Fabian, Michael Morpurgo, Gary Rhodes, Julie Spence, Alastair Stewart), most are not - including Au. --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 23:22, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: for the record there are more than 100,000 living OBEs throughout the world. J04n(talk page) 23:44, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Let's be careful about the acronyms here. An OBE is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. That site says that there are 100,000 members of the order, which would include the lower-ranking MBEs as well as OBEs, CBEs, DBEs and KBEs. Having said that, I don't think that an OBE is sufficient in itself for notability. Phil Bridger (talk) 14:37, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for clarifying that. J04n(talk page) 17:48, 9 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete Quite aside from the OBE stuff, he doesn't seem to have made a significant impact in his field. He co-founded a couple of minor societies. His publications appear to be minimal. --MelanieN (talk) 15:29, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
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