The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Clearly little support for this rather odd deletion rationale. Malcolmxl5 ( talk) 17:15, 8 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Cheng Lei

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The subject fails WP:ANYBIO and WP:GNG. The sources cited in the article are unreliable. This article is about a male Chinese television presenter who has not got much wide media coverage at all compared to the Australian-Chinese journalist and television reporter Cheng Lei (journalist) who is a female with the same name. I hope that deleting this article will help to move Cheng Lei (journalist) to this title. It is important to avoid the miscommunication and misunderstanding of the article from the viewers perspective. Abishe ( talk) 14:40, 1 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Abishe ( talk) 14:40, 1 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Abishe ( talk) 14:40, 1 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. Abishe ( talk) 14:40, 1 September 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete; the Cheng Lei (journalist) has more relevance. - Hatchens ( talk) 15:36, 1 September 2020 (UTC) reply
• Keep A more notable person having the same name is NOT a valid rationale for deletion. Both the nominating statement and the above delete vote give no rationale for deletion other than "someone else is more notable". I cannot judge the foreign-language sources provided so I won't !vote on this person's notability, but Based on the new English sources added to the article, I am changing my !vote to "Keep", and the closer of this discussion should ignore the nominating statement as well as any votes that are based on "X is more notable than Y". Discussion of which person is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC is separate from deletion discussions. -- Ahecht ( TALK
  PAGE) 16:42, 1 September 2020 (UTC) reply
• Keep English language source here [1], clearly provides that this guy is a notable Chinese tv host and would be unquestionably notable if he was from a western country. The fact that in a country of over a billion people some share the same name is not a rational cause for deletion, all the people listed at John Smith would be deleted then - atleast the likes of John Smith (cricketer, born 1834). GuzzyG ( talk) 12:10, 2 September 2020 (UTC) reply
• Keep per GuzzyG -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 14:08, 2 September 2020 (UTC) reply
• Keep If he hosted Idol and Top Gear in Australia, he’d be notable. Or at least no less notable than hundreds of other people we have bios for. The other Cheng Lei wasn’t well known before she was, erm "Shanghai'd". I wouldn’t mind if this was moved to another title and a DAB page added, if that would help avoid the false impression that this Cheng is somehow more prominent. Pelagic (  messages ) – (06:15 Thu 03, AEST) 20:15, 2 September 2020 (UTC) reply
• Keep - the host of this many tv shows is clearly notable, and as clearly stated above, someone sharing the same name is not a valid deletion reason. matt91486 ( talk) 08:12, 3 September 2020 (UTC) reply

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.