Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sin Chow-Yiu (2nd nomination)

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The result was Keep. Cirt (talk) 00:18, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sin Chow-Yiu[edit]

Fails WP:N, and no multiple reliable sources to establish it. Issues from the first AfD were never addressed. Wizardman 01:00, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm satisfied with Nsk92's research. No longer wish the article deleted (wn't withdraw myself as there are other delete voted currently) Wizardman 22:21, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete- does not meet WP:PROF in my opinion. I can find nothing in Google except who he is, where he works and what he does. That's not enough to establish notability. Reyk _YO! 01:14, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Satisfies criterion 5 of WP:PROF: "The person holds or has held a named/personal chair appointment or "Distinguished Professor" appointment at a major institution of higher education and research." From what I know (at least that is the case in my own area, mathematics), the University of Hong Kong is indeed a major research university with academic standards comparable to the best western universities and I would assume that having an endowed chair appointment there has basically equivalent meaning. He is also the Chief Editor of the "Journal of Oriental Studies" (I have added a reference verifying this to the article) which may qualify under criterion 8 of WP:PROF. I am not sure about the standing of this journal, but it is reasonably widely held by the U.S. academic libraries according to WorldCat data[1]. I admit that I am bothered by the lack of googlescholar/books hits but I am assuming that he publishes in Chinese (could also be due to difference in name spelling). In this case, especially in view of WP:BIAS, I am inclined to give the benefit of the doubt. Nsk92 (talk) 01:43, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By looking at the available google results, it appears that his name is spelled in Chinese as 單周堯 (I would really like for someone who knows mandarin to check this!). If that is correct, there are 145 googlebooks hits for that spelling[2]. Nsk92 (talk) 02:13, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —Nsk92 (talk) 01:48, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
keep per Nsk92. Pete.Hurd (talk) 22:17, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Nsk92. The characters are almost certainly right. Looking at a gbooks search with them in author, one gets a result with the transliteration Zhouyao Shan (or Shan Zhou-yao), which seems to be the pinyin for those characters, while Sin Chow-Yiu is the cantonese pronunciation transliteration. Searching on Zhouyao Shan gets this identifying them.John Z (talk) 22:20, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Hong Kong-related deletion discussions. —John Z (talk) 22:27, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, as even the nominator now says.--MrFish^{Go Fish} 00:38, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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