Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jihan Wu

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 20:04, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jihan Wu

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Fails WP:NBIO. No in-depth coverage, just included in some lists of 'wealthiest people', passing, offhand one-two sentence mentions of him in mainstream news, and the usual rewritten press release drivel in BitCoin walled garden self-referencing media. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:09, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 10:09, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 10:09, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Delete - non-notable Bitcoin billionaire who only has trivial mentions in the mainstream media and occasional coverage in the cryptocurrency-sphere. Unless someone can find a piece of significant coverage from a reputable source that deals with him in particular, rather than his company or Bitcoin Cash or whatever, I don't think there's any reason to keep it. PraiseVivec (talk) 12:52, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep - this is hard to believe, but hasn't the nominator learned anything from the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Micree Zhan discussion just a few months ago? This is again blatant failure to perform WP:BEFORE. I just did a cursory search on Google, and found significant coverage about Jihan Wu from Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg, Forbes Billionaire index, Quartz, and Straits Times. And that's before I even looked at the thousands of articles about him in Chinese. Besides being the billionaire co-founder of Bitmain, probably the most influential cryptocurrency company, he is generally believed to have masterminded the widely reported Bitcoin Cash hard fork, see Quartz and Fast Company. -Zanhe (talk) 20:10, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - The subject is notable and the sources support it. In fact he is a controversial figure, with lots of media coverage in the industry rags (in addition to mainstream). Additionally, I believe as former CEO of Bitmain the notability test is also lower, perhaps by WP:CORP. Jtbobwaysf (talk) 01:42, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - notable person with plenty of coverage. However, the article needs to be improved and cite more independent reliable sources. Retimuko (talk) 19:28, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw, While only two sources Zanhe presents (the first two) are actually independent in-depth coverage, the rest being mentions in passing or CV-like summary submitted by the subject (or likely, their PR team) to generic bio-blurb sites, the Forbes and Fortune coverage does appear sufficient to warrant passing NBIO. Thanks for finding them, and I can only wish Zahne would assume more good faith towards other editors. Spam is a major source of problems for this site, and attacking editors who try to deal with it is not helping. Zahne, your help with rescuing articles is very appreciated, just try to stay cool, please. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:13, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - as per previous comments. Zanhe has done a great job in finding sources and expanding the article. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:51, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

This subject of this article has so much media coverage is difficult to even sort out the high quality RS from low quality. Here are two high quality China Daily [1] and Caijing/Chinadaily [2]. As well as Sohu [3], Sina [4], etc. For those that dont know, ChinaDaily is an official government mouthpiece, as good as an RS comes. Jtbobwaysf (talk) 07:32, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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