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The result was keep. Withdrawn nomination with no outstanding delete !votes. NAC. Tim Song (talk) 19:20, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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I think this person is notable. He has a red link in another article. The BBC mentions that he is one of the Far East's "greatest names in reporting" (see article). Yet 99.9% of people never heard of him and, until today, did not have an article while obscure video games and porn stars have articles. So I don't know what to do and am submitting this article for discussion on whether to delete or not. Sorry if I am doing this wrong or if there is some formatting error in submission. Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 15:21, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong Keep He is clearly an important person, it's just that the article is horribly written. Someone will get on that eventually, i'm sure. I'm added a bunch of sources, some of which are entirely about him, from major newspapers and stations, achieving notability easily. I'm not sure if there's much else to say. SilverserenC 16:10, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Per Silver screen. Poor writing of an article doesn't mean that the subject is non-notable. Sufficient number of Google hits. PmlineditorTalk 16:20, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Closure of AFD requested and keep. I started this AFD. We now have independent confirmation on notability, at first I wasn't sure. I plan to fix this article more. Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 18:29, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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