Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zhang Wei (Chinese artist)


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The result was   delete. –MuZemike 01:05, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Zhang Wei (Chinese artist)

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Seems to be a clear hoax. The article relied on six sources: The editor had previously created one article, Wu Junyong, which seems valid, but may have been used to lend credibility to this one. Both the tone and manner of the sourcing reminds me of certain breaching experiments. - Bilby (talk) 10:31, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Christoph Noe (Ed), Xenia Piech (Ed), Cordelia Steiner (Ed), Young Chinese Artists: The Next Generation, 2008. - No mention of Zhang Wei in the book
 * Mario Ciampi, Philip Tinari, Artists in China: Inside the Contemporary Studio, 2007. - Also no mention
 * Asia Pacific Art Magazine, July 2008 - Searched the journal for instances of Wei and Zhang. Could find nothing that looked at all like the subject.
 * - Talks about a Zhang Wei who was arrested in China, but he was a journalist, and was still imprisoned as of 2008.
 * Chinese art exhibit is highly political - Quote attributed to Zhang Wei in the WP article is actually by Britta Erickson. No mention of Zhang Wei in the source.
 * Able Art '99 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum - No mention of Zhang Wei. Material claimed to be about him in the article refers to different artists.
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 * Delete - either a hoax, or fails WP:BIO/WP:GNG. Claritas § 19:00, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
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