Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kris Wang

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The result was keep. -- Cirt (talk) 03:11, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kris Wang

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Fails notability. delete - UtherSRG (talk) 09:42, 24 April 2011 (UTC) UtherSRG (talk) 09:42, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as she meets WP:POLITICIAN as mayor of Cupertino, California, an important Silicon Valley city of 60,000 people which is the home of the headquarters of Apple Computer. Cullen328 (talk) 04:57, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:22, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:22, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete - fails WP:POLITICIAN. Although it is referenced, poorly, that the subject of the article is the mayor of Cupertino, the city itself is not "...cities of at least regional importance."

Cupertino is not even on the list of 100 largest (by population) incorporated cities in the state of California. Therefore, the subject needs to pass WP:GNG; on this point, it is debatable if the 100 news hits, or 7 book hits, could be considered Significant Coverage under GNG. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 17:20, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep Being mayor of Cupertino does not provide automatic or assumed notability, but she has received a lot of coverage, not all of it routine. See for example [1], [2] (paywall, but she appears to be a prominent example in the article), [3], etc. - including a number of articles in Chinese which I could not evaluate. --MelanieN (talk) 01:09, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The subject is notable, being covered in detail in sources such as California politics & policy. Colonel Warden (talk) 11:34, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I must say that Cupertino qualifies as at least regional importance, and there are sufficient sources available. For example, American Broadcasting Corporation has this profile of her, the local paper has a short biography of her that could be used for more background information, and the sources cited above make a big deal about her Chinese ethnicity and what it represents for Cupertino. Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:09, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as all signs seem to point to notability. coccyx bloccyx_(toccyx) 00:32, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Cupertino just isn't a very large city. If Sunnyvale or Santa Clara's mayor had an article, I doubt that would meet our standards either. As for GNG, I'm not seeing a lot of significant coverage. A few local news biographies, not even talking about what she's done, does not constitute significant coverage. -LtNOWIS (talk) 06:06, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - covered in detail in sources such as California politics & policy.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:32, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Disagreement about what constitutes a city of "regional importance" as mentioned in WP:POLITICIAN is legitimate. I believe that Cupertino qualifies, as it is the location of the headquarters of Apple Computer, now the largest technology company in market capitalization in the world. The company operates over 50 buildings in Cupertino. Cullen328 (talk) 15:46, 5 May 2011 (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.