237:. The article is a mess, but that's not a reason for deletion. COI problems are also not a valid reason for deletion, tag the article with a COI template instead. Brief reading through this suggests two likely notability passes: "Acting Minister" is Chinese government, and educational activity. We will probably need Chinese speakers to look at the sources; ping me when more information is found and I'll rereview this discussion. --
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about their ancestors. It is often a family connection that prompts contributors to research and write about notable people of the past. This may be a particular issue in the case of examples such as this, for reasons that should be obvious from a glance at his career. To exclude him from WP because he has largely been ignored in China in recent decades would be to introduce a POV bias which is highly undesirable. --
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Chinese Knowledge article provides even less information than this messy article, and therefore there is no path to "clean up by translation." I don't think the current article is salvageable
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Reformed Nanjing Government (aka Japanese puppet). Just because he isn't featured in ZH wiki doesn't represent any bias. ZH wiki is incredibly underdeveloped, I often find more information on a person from
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There are more than sufficient claims to pass for notability. Stylistic problems are only very exceptionally grounds for deletion and this article is comprehensible - the style is similar to that adopted in many biographical dictionaries. We also need to be tolerant of articles written by people
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