Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jessica Chen Weiss

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. Community consensus sets a relatively low bar for accepting nominations at AfD and this one does make a claim for a lack of notability (albeit in the most limited way possible). However, there's overwhelming consensus that the subject passes the WP:AUTHOR and WP:PROF SNGs, so a WP:SNOW closure appears appropriate. Regards, (non-admin closure) Goldsztajn (talk) 21:48, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Jessica Chen Weiss

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not WP:N Samp4ngeles (talk) 13:29, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Women, Politics, and Washington. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 13:52, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Keep. Notable author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations, passes WP:NAUTHOR. Articles about her in many high profile publications, often interviews, which I think also giver her a WP:NPROF pass for C1. Examples include:

1. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/08/us-china-economic-competition-policy/
2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/20/us-deter-beijing-taiwan/
3. https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/03/03/china-us-house-competition

Also independent coverage of her views here:

1. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/us-should-reject-chinas-harris-mccarthy-taiwan-compromise (brief mention)
2. https://kraneshares.com/a-refined-approach-to-china-jessica-chen-weiss-on-us-china-relations/ I note "Jessica Chen Weiss is trending right now. After a high-profile New Yorker feature, she is being characterized as the embodiment of a refined approach to China in Washington"
3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/08/xi-jinping-china-us/

And many more, but I won't go on too long, she seems very notable. (I made article improvements and added the book after the nomination and before making this comment) CT55555(talk) 14:56, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

• Keep based upon sources already present in the article at the time of nomination. (1) Her first book received at least six reviews in relevant publications (I've found this essay an interesting examination of how that can lend notability to the author) (2) profile in The New Yorker is undoubtedly sigcov contributing to notability, as likely is The Diplomat (3) she is widely cited as an expert in US-China relations in both foreign affairs publications and general interest media (i.e. WaPo, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic interviewed on both NPR and NYTimes as an expert on this subject), meeting WP:NPROF C7. (4) holding a named professorship at an Ivy League institution arguably meets NPROF C5. Any one of these would contribute to at least a borderline notability, together they make notability clear. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 15:10, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

  Additionally, selection to advise the US Policy Planning Staff further establishes her reputation as an expert outside of academia, contributing to C7. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 15:23, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

• Speedy keep, she holds a named professorship so that alone is enough for NPROF C5. JoelleJay (talk) 16:55, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
• Speedy keep per WP:SK3, "The nomination is completely erroneous. No accurate deletion rationale has been provided." The named professorship was in the second sentence of the article as nominated and there is no evidence from the extremely brief nomination statement that the nominator even considered academic notability, nor performed any WP:BEFORE for GNG-notability. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:24, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
• Speedy keep: I have to question if the nominator even read the article they have nominated. Curbon7 (talk) 18:33, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
• Comment @User:Samp4ngeles Please consider if you should WP:SNOW withdraw this nomination. Deletion seems unlikely. CT55555(talk) 19:16, 11 March 2023 (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.