Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zhang Xin (artist)


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The result was soft delete. WP:REFUND applies.  A  Train talk 08:45, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Zhang Xin (artist)

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Fails WP:Artist. Unreferenced BLP, essentially orphaned, and I can barely find any Internet sources. None of her awards is remotely notable or verifiable. The article even contains sentences about a completely different (male) person: "Like Wang Guangyi, Xu Beihong and Wu Guanzhong, Zhang Xiaogang is becoming to the best-selling contemporary Chinese artists and is a favorite of European collectors. He is represented in Beijing and Paris, Boston, New York City and Blossom Art Collection in Los Angeles." shows it's not vandalism. Note: it's going to be confusing trying to find sources because there are many other artists with the same name, e.g. this artist is male and a graduate of Wako University in Japan; this artist (link in Chinese) is a 1967-born female graduate of Shanghai University. Our Zhang Xin as mentioned in the article and verified here is a female alumnus of China Academy of Art (even though that link says she was born in c. 1948 and not 1953 as the article mentioned, but that's a relatively minor issue). Timmyshin (talk) 16:27, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. Mark the trainDiscuss 17:12, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. Mark the trainDiscuss 17:12, 28 September 2017 (UTC)


 * 1) If this page is indeed the same person as the subject (and she seems to be based off of what the article calls her blog), not only was she born in 1948 rather than 1953, but is from Tianjin rather than Jilin City. Our article may be incorrect.
 * 2) I imagine the masculine pronoun bolded above is a grammatical error. Referring to female-identifying people as he is an extremely common error for native Chinese speakers to make, given the homophony of Chinese pronouns, and that it is an error is plausible given the context: "…then started her career as an art editor of Shandong Pictural and a painted traditional Chinese painting…. Zhang Xiaogang is becoming to the best-selling contemporary Chinese artists…." Lacking a source, I can't tell if Zhang Xiaogang is referring to our subject or not: it might be her nom de 筆 or something, but that it refers to a different peson entirely seems likeliest.
 * 3) The external link called "Interview by LA 18" shows no content for me in any browser.
 * Delete, I guess: it's a BLP and the sourcing seems at first blush like it's going to be impossible. Apart from one page I found talking about an exhibition she did in Las Vegas in 2007, just about every search result is a false positive (or exact duplicate of the one page that profiles her). Snuge purveyor (talk) 02:11, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Zhang Xiaogang is a different male artist. Those 2 sentences were c&p from that article. According to, Tianjin is her ancestral home (China) which isn't necessarily one's birth place/hometown. Timmyshin (talk) 03:09, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Right you are. Stricken. Snuge purveyor (talk) 10:00, 30 September 2017 (UTC)


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