Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fala Chen

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The result was keep. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:38, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fala Chen[edit]

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Biography of a living person with virtually nothing in the way of sources save the pageant she won. —Jeremy v^_^v ^Bori! 18:44, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep - From the nomination, I thought the article would be a lot worse than the one I found, which describes an actress who has received many award nominations. She was a titleholder in Miss New York Chinese Pageant which is notable enough for its own article. She is also a recipient and nominee (over several years) of awards which have their own articles, and where there is a precedent for winners to have articles (see 2010 TVB Anniversary Awards. So this is a case of finding additional sourcing to verify the text in the article, which is reasonably well-written, presented, and largely neutral in tone. I think a lot of the best sources will be in Chinese, so less likely to come up in text/source searches. Mabalu (talk) 20:50, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Miss New York Chinese Pageant has no sources, either, and fails WP:N as it only has one source - its own website. —Jeremy v^_^v ^Bori! 21:04, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting - then that should probably be nominated too. I'm surprised the beauty pageant police didn't get there already. She still sounds notable based on her acting career and award wins/nominations, so my keep vote stands - will have a look for sources to support those. Mabalu (talk) 21:07, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Blimey! Searching for her traditional and simplified Chinese names pulls up a load of news archive hits (in Chinese) with dates covering the last 15-odd years since she first won the pageant. We really need someone who can read Chinese, as I haven't a clue where to begin looking there... I'm finding some interesting mentions though in English-language sources such as [1] Mabalu (talk) 21:24, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I've added three sources, including this article focusing on her, but I think proper verification/sourcing will need to be done by someone who can read the Chinese language sources. Mabalu (talk) 22:16, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The topic is notable, but it could make use of Chinese-language sources to fill the article up with information. --Cold Season (talk) 22:32, 1 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Simply tag the article for improvement. STSC (talk) 09:08, 4 July 2013 (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.