Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sidney Lau


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The result was keep. Aɴɢʀ (talk) 12:36, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Sidney Lau

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This article has been tagged as lacking references for 4 years. There is scant indication that the subject, who wrote some language textbooks, satisfies the relevant notability guideline, WP:BIO. Edison (talk) 03:06, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
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 * Keep per WP:PROF 4, "made a significant impact in the area of higher education". Although I had never heard of these textbooks, Google books and Google scholar turn up lots remarks such as, "Cantonese terms have been transcribed using Sidney Lau's system of romanization" (Pina-Cabral 2002), "my own data employs the Sidney Lau system" (Chappell 2006), and "three [systems of romanization] have survived and are currently in use in Hong Kong: Meyer-Wempe, Sidney Lau and Yale" (Burke 2007). Cnilep (talk) 00:25, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. This article can be referenced (I added one), if not all that easily, and Lau seems to meet point four of Notability_(academics) for notability. Kschlot1 (talk) 14:24, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I added a few more references, including academic evaluations of Lau's romanization system.Kschlot1 (talk) 13:39, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 02:27, 5 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep Appears to be notable. -- GreenC  16:14, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per Cnilep. --Randykitty (talk) 17:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
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