Fengbo Zhang
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There are no reliable and independent sources in the article, and a google search does not show anything that would indicate reliability. It might well be the case that there are many sources in Chinese. But something about this article is fishy. The lack of English language, although the article claims that he was a visitor at Harvard and the NBER and is a senior vice president at Citigroup. The tone of the article. The many wikilinks in other articles that lead to this article, see [1]. In fact, if my hunch that there is something fishy about this article is correct, it will be necessary to clean-up quite a few other articles. See for example this article about a self-published book by Fengbo Zhang, Analysis of Chinese Macroeconomy. Pantherskin (talk) 16:15, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
- Speedy Keep I am having trouble understanding the grounds for nomination. I did a google book search and found almost all of the books referred to in the article, a google scholar search founds much discussion of his work, and the references in the article link to real sources. Analysis of Chinese Macroeconomy is not self-published, it is published by People Press, China, a major publisher. Please withdraw the nomination. Francis Bond (talk) 16:47, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
- I am more than happy to withdraw the nomination if you could actually provide reliable and independent sources. Google Scholar does not show any discussion of his work, contrary to your claim. The references in the article link to googlepages, blogs and wikis. Google book search shows some of his book, alas they are self-published (i.e. by Xlibrins or by Fengbo Zhang himself). Pantherskin (talk) 17:24, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
- Keep, not being funny, but 'seems a bit fishy' isn't a criteria for deletion. The sources aren't great, but you can request a translation of the Chinese ones. Lot's of g-hits, which without trawling through them all seem to suggets notability. I think it's more a candidate for tagging and research than AfD, unless you can point out something more definite that's wrong with it?--ThePaintedOne (talk) 16:56, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
- The lack of sources, the promotional nature of the article and the many wikilinks inserted into other articles, the fact that the deletion tag was removed by a newly registered account. But what makes this article fishy are the claims that cannot be verified. Senior vice president of the Citigroup, but there is no Fengbo Zhang at Citigroup. In fact a look at the homepage of this individual is instructive ([2]). There is a claim that he was a keynote speaker at the China Finance Summit, but the link to the summit shows that he is not in the long list of speakers. And so on. Pantherskin (talk) 17:24, 9 February 2011 (UTC)