Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yan Ge (dancer)

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The result was Speedily deleted as a G12 copyright violation of various elements of this site. Philg88 ^♦talk 07:15, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yan Ge (dancer)

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Relies on, for the majority, one source. Original Research Relies on Wikipedia for a source May be copy pasted. Unreliable sources Luxure (talk) 23:15, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Weak keep The question for Afd is not whether there are inappropriate sources listed in an article, but rather whether there are reliable ones available to (1) verify the information and (2) show sufficient scope of coverage to meet notability guidelines. The majority of listed sources for this article come from the Baidu Baike, like Wikipedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia, and not a reliable source. Similarly the citation to Wikipedia articles in the current Yan Ge (dancer) article is inappropriate. Disregarding those two sets, leaves four extant citations for immediate consideration. #1 http://www.china.com.cn/chinese/2000/Aug/2458.htm appears to be an August 2000 reprint of a China Culture Daily article of 25 July 2000 about the 6th "Tao Li Cup". It does not mention specific winners, nor Yan Ge. #2 [v http://www.baike.com/wiki/%E3%80%8A%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E6%99%9A%E6%8A%A5%E3%80%8B] is also from a wiki and does not meet our reliability standards. It appears to be an article about the "Beijing Evening News. I did not find mention of Yan Ge there. I am using "葛妍" and "妍葛" as her name in characters. #3 http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/cn_focus/2006-08/30/content_85135.htm seems to be as reliable as a governmental cultural website can be. The article is about the 8th Asia Arts Festival in 2006. Again it was a general article and did not list winners. I did not find mention of Yan Ge there. #4 http://yue.ifeng.com/news/detail_2014_09/23/38882012_0.shtml is an interview in New York with Yan Ge. It was done for VNB Magazine, a Chinese men's magazine published in New York City and the interview was originally published in English, here. From that interview it does appear that Yan Ge is likely to have the extent of coverage required by Wikipedia's notability guidelines. So, far the Chinese news sites that I have checked just reference the VNB interview. As far as being a cut and paste job. I did not find a source webpage, but some of the phraseology was the same as used about dancer Li, who defected some years ago. I wonder if some of it is just Chinese idiom translated. I note that the article on the Chinese (zh) Wikipedia was "delete pages Ge Yan (dancer) G11 : advertising or publicity" on 25 September. --Bejnar (talk) 21:32, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As nominator and Bejnar have pointed out, there is only one source available, the interview. Interviews are not reliable nor independent, thus cannot be used for GNG. As there isn't multiple, reliable, independent sources about her, little alone one source, she doesn't pass GNG. Bgwhite (talk) 07:01, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:36, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The family name is Ge (葛) and the given name is Yan (妍), judging by the interviews provided. Section "Social activism" is largely copyvio of [1]... no wait scratch that, the whole article is just scattered copyvio from different parts of that site. Speedy by G11 or G12? 野狼院ひさし _{Hisashi Yarouin} 12:55, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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