Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seongho Cha

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The result was keep. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 17:27, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Seongho Cha

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Advertising page for non-notable dancer. None of the sources provide in depth coverage of the dancer, only giving passing mentions. 1600 results at Google. DengFong (talk) 09:06, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Sources indicate subject has competed at the highest level of his chosen field both nationally and internationally. ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹^Speak 11:51, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. My google-fu is weak today, and my patience for machine-translated Korean even weaker - but is it possible that there might be more sources in Korean? I concur with Suriel1981 in that dancers at the highest level nationally would seem to be notable, in general. There's a bit of fluff here, but certainly some notability - if we can document it. UltraExactZZ ^Said~ Did 15:42, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per above, he appears to be a top level athlete [1][2]. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:09, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - If you search for "Jimmy Cha" or "Jimmy Cha Dancer" on google, you get far more results. He performed under that name for most of his career, but now uses his Korean name. TrailerTrack (talk) 21:27, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per WP:NOTE, there seems to be a lack of significant, in depth coverage of the subject from reliable third party sources. NTDTV and Renminbao are sources sponsored by the Falun Gong movement which does heavy promotion for the Shen Yun group which Cha belongs to. As for Google, most of the results for "Jimmy Cha" directs to a South Korean poker player, while "Jimmy Cha dancer" provides numerous false positives with the "cha cha cha" dance.--AstrixZero (talk) 04:51, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, in my last comment it wasn't clear, when I search for the following, I get 8,160 results that mostly seem to be about the right person: "Jimmy Cha" dancer. I'm also wondering if search results are the same in each country. Hopefully this helps, sorry about any confusion. Also, I don't speak Korean, but when I search for his name in Korean along with the Korean word for dancer I get a lot of results that have media articles about him. TrailerTrack (talk) 19:47, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Appears to qualify per [3]. The subject need not have received significant or in-depth coverage, merely "if he or she has been the subject of multiple published[3] secondary sources which are reliable, intellectually independent of each other,[4] and independent of the subject." The references in the current article show that to be the case. Of course the FLG sources don't count. (Of note: OP made account to submit this deletion request.) The Sound and the Fury (talk) 20:20, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:50, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:51, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

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