Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Li Dalong

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Li Dalong does not pass WP:GNG or WP:ATHLETE. I have nominated it per WP:DEL#REASON 8. I have done a search for references and found none other than stat websites. Thank you. CF-501 Falcon (talk · contribs) 19:17, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Sportspeople. CF-501 Falcon (talk · contribs) 19:17, 19 February 2025 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sport of athletics and China. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 20:18, 19 February 2025 (UTC)
• Silver medal at the Asian Games would, actually, pass WP:NATH. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:56, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

:Weak keep. Per above, does pass WP:NATH. That being said, this article and all other sportspeople stubs like it are practically pointless as they lack any real significant content that you couldn't get off of a chart. I'm not sure if just blindly citing notability guidelines is in the spirit of building an encyclopedia, but I'm also not sure how I really feel about pruning all these sportspeople stubs. Manually getting rid of all of them through AfD would take decades, which makes me think it's kind of a waste of our time. This is something that should be brought up for discussion eventually. Kylemahar902 (talk) 23:55, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

• Keep per expansion I made, plenty of references available online for example this interview with the China News Service: [https://www.chinanews.com.cn/2001-11-18/26/139808.html]

:To respond to User:Kylemahar902, I think the answer to content-less articles is to add content to them. I've seen dozens of NATH-passing articles in AfD over the last few years and for each one I can think of without exception, when you look hard enough there's always some prose-based coverage out there. The point of NATH isn't to be a lower standard but rather an indicator that coverage definitely exists if you look for it. --Habst (talk) 16:06, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

• Looking over the article, I see four sources. [https://sports.sina.com.cn/star/lidalong/ 1] is essentially a database entry which probably doesn't count towards establishing notability. [https://www.chinanews.com.cn/2001-11-18/26/139808.html 2] is the interview you mention above, which is mostly background information and not just interview quotes, so it probably counts. [http://sports.sina.com.cn/asiagames/2002-10-12/1739333454.shtml 3] is a photo with a one-sentence caption summarizing the results of a competition, so it does not count. [https://sports.sohu.com/16/71/sports_news165127116.shtml 4] is the same thing but shorter from another source, so it also doesn't count. I don't think the article in its current state demonstrates that the subject is notable. Toadspike [Talk] 13:18, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
• :On the other hand, he clearly meets criteria 2 and 4 of WP:NATH. I guess I'll go with a weak keep for now. I expect a more detailed search would turn up more sources, but I haven't found anything great. Toadspike [Talk] 13:25, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

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