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Chinese for Romeo or Count Dracula, say not knowing the usual translation into Chinese of these names. That doesn't mean that it is not a good argument to say (& prove) that these are such important literary characters that anyone with any familiarity with "Western" culture would know them. Deleting these would be like deleting an article on a chemical element for insufficient sources.
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