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The result was redirect to Huang Xianfan. NW (Talk) 03:26, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bagui School

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Only one source has the topic of the article as the subject (that is about what I can find on Google and Baidu), however the article use various links to the same source (Chinese website, English translation, search engine results) to make it looks like different sources. Other references are for individual persons and books mentioned in the article's content that do not cover the subject.

The articlr's vote for deletion on the Chinese wikipedia is here[1]--Skyfiler (talk) 04:05, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. cab (talk) 05:11, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
• Comment: please use {{afd2}} when creating an AfD page. Thanks, cab (talk) 05:11, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to Huang Xianfan at worst. I have no ability to assess the Chinese sources so I am unable to argue either way on whether it possesses sufficient notability for its own page. However, it certainly appears significant in the context of the founder. Bridgeplayer (talk) 21:04, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

• Be careful! Skyfiler has destroyed the pages on 'Bagui School' on purpose. Offensive123 (talk) 22:46, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
• Comment We have no real experience with articles on __ school of research on a subject, though such terms are widely used in the history and sociology of science. Usually we include them under the name of a particularly notable or characteristic theory, or topic of study--is there any way of doing it here?ּ ּּּ DGG ( talk ) 03:02, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

• Almost all the articles about Huang Xianfan are of dubious notability. His major work (according to those articles) General History of the Zhuang was not collected even by the National Library of China (there was one result, but that one was edited by 张声震 not Huang). Most sources of those articles are from forums, baidu, and books writen by Huang himself. The 中国网 article which used by the article General History of the Zhuang was copied from Huang's book A Critical Biography of Wei Ba Qun(ISBN 9787563376568). 《壮族百科辞典》,this link and this did not mention the "Bagui School". The only source mentioned "Bagui School" was the article writen by Chen Jisheng, but I strongly doubt its facticity.--Ice Sea (talk) 06:13, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

• Delete. It seems that the only source mentioned Bagui School is an article by Chen Jisheng. The realible sources were not enough. And this article has been deleted several times in Chinese Wikipedia.--Ice Sea (talk) 09:31, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 00:09, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NW (Talk) 03:04, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NW (Talk) 01:53, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

• Delete and/or redirect to Huang Xianfan. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 02:15, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
• Delete or Redirect to Huang Xianfan per nom and Starblind. GlassCobra 21:58, 25 November 2009 (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.