Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/He Mengfu

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The result was speedy keep per WP:SKCRIT#1. The nominator has withdrawn the nomination and no one other than the nominator recommended that the page be deleted or redirected. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:56, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

He Mengfu

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Not notable I believe. There's only this single source, the one currently in the article. Maybe I missed something, but everything else that turns up in google is about the far more famous Zhao Mengfu. LordPeterII (talk) 09:32, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. LordPeterII (talk) 09:32, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. LordPeterII (talk) 09:32, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
1. 張丹 (December 2020). ""不僅為死者悲"——作為公共事件的賀孟斧之逝及其影劇人生" [“Not only Grieve over the Dead”——the Death of He Mengfu as a Public Event and His Cinema Life]. 當代電影, Contemporary Cinema. Archived from the original on 2021-07-07. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  Details about the seven-page journal article are also available here^{archive.today}. The abstract notes from Google Translate:
  On May 10, 1945, He Mengfu's death in Chongqing plunged the film industry in the rear area into a silent grief. The memorial activities and commemorative chapters entrusted the memory of the filmmakers to the deceased, and they have also become a spiritual dialogue with them and even express their realistic demands. Opportunity. This article intends to use it as the starting point for the discussion, while combing the activity tracks of He Mengfu's movie director, stage art, movie theory and document translation, while comprehending the artistic ideals and life temperature engulfed in the turbulent history.
2. 刘静沅 (1982). "忆贺孟斧" [Recalling He Mengfu]. 戏剧艺术 (in Chinese).
  This article^{archive.today} cites this source: "忆贺孟斧[J]. 刘静沅. 戏剧艺术. 1982(02)".
  This is translated to: "Recalling He Mengfu[J]. Liu Jingyuan. Dramatic Art. 1982(02)".
3. "贺孟斧" [He Mengfu]. Chinaculture.org (in Chinese). China Daily. 2004-06-28. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  From Google Translate:
  Chinese stage artist and drama director. Formerly known as Shanke. People from Wujin, Jiangsu. In 1931, he graduated from the Theater Department of the National Peking University Art College. Worked in Shanghai Lianhua Film Company and Chengdu Northwest Film Company, organized the Shanghai Weekly Experimental Small Theater with Zhao Dan, Zhang Ming and others, and participated in the Amateur Theater Association, Amateur Experimental Theater Troupe, Anti-enemy Theater Troupe, and China Theater Arts Society. And other theater groups. He was also employed as the director of the Research and Experiment Department of the National Drama School and taught stage installation.
4. 斯氏體繫在中國（修訂版） (in Chinese). Sichuan: 四川文艺出版社. 2019. ISBN 978-7541148811. OCLC 1111078854. Archived from the original on 2020-06-21. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  The book has a section titled "第三節曹葆華、天藍、田禽、舒非、趙如琳、賀孟斧的譯介 21", which is translated to "Section 3 Translation and Introduction of Cao Baohua, Tianlan, Tianqi, Shu Fei, Zhao Rulin, and He Mengfu 21".
5. 胡曉軍, ed. (2009). 戲折書痕︰《上海戲劇》50年名家白篇文選 [Bookmarks of Dramas: "Shanghai Drama" 50 Years of White Papers by Famous Artists] (in Chinese). Shanghai: zh:文汇出版社. ISBN 9787807417248. OCLC 502635718. Archived from the original on 2021-07-07. Retrieved 2021-07-07 – via Books.com.tw.
  There is a chapter titled "賀孟斧軼事", which is translated to "An Anecdote of He Mengfu". The book summary notes: "The more than one hundred articles contained in this book are works by famous artists selected from the vast volumes. They reflect from one aspect the path of the publication of "Shanghai Drama" in the past 50 years, and thus the development path of the drama art industry in the past 50 years."
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow He Mengfu to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 08:21, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Per Cunard, the Chinese sources are sufficient to meet WP:BASIC. Jumpytoo Talk 23:10, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw my nomination. It appears I should have been searching for the name written in Chinese characters. @Cunard: If you have time, could you add some of these sources to the article? I don't feel comfortable doing it myself enough since I can't read a word of Chinese. --LordPeterII (talk) 17:48, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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