Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Su Dabao

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 no consensus. one good source is sometimes held to be enough, sometimes not, and very few people seem to really care, given the three relistings. Wily D 08:40, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Su Dabao[edit]

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Unverifiable (only link cited is a dead link, and a Google search by me doesn't really yield much in terms of usable information), and possibly not notable. Delete. --Nlu (talk) 13:31, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:41, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:41, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:41, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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) 13:53, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep. The Star mentions him as a "renowned artist"; China Central Television did a short piece about him; the Global Times published a three-page story about him, calling him China's "leading performance sand artist" (unfortunately, the link is dead and the Wayback Machine only archived the first page); China.org.cn (the "authorized government portal site to China") calls him the "founder of Chinese sand painting", and gave him a couple paragraphs in an article (in German) about the art. I think this is enough to (barely) satisfy #1 and #2 of WP:CREATIVE. There may also be Chinese sources that I can't find/don't know how to look for. I was thinking about !voting for a merge, but to where? While there is an article on sandpainting, there doesn't seem to be any coverage on the performance-art sandpainting done by Su and his ilk. Maybe it's not notable, or maybe this is an opportunity to write a new article. Braincricket (talk) 04:32, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, KTC (talk) 00:37, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz ^talk 04:13, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep. Hardly notable and the article needs a lot of work, but the person does appear to have one partially viable news article. LogicalCreator (talk) 06:51, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.