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Hi Kges1901, regarding this revert, I worry that you've been taken in by the number of sources vs. their quality. As I wrote when I originally PRODed this, "No evidence of notability amid scattered minor mentions in a few books. The only potential significant mention I've found is in Raymond Cheung's Aces of the Republic of China Air Force, but I can't get a full Google Books preview and it's only the one source." You can also read more about the wider issues in this MILHIST post. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 04:08, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I found a copy of Cheung's book and I consider the amount of detail significant coverage. It's very likely that coverage exist in Chinese. --Kges1901 (talk) 13:35, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Kges1901: Thanks, I appreciate you tracking that down. I'm still not convinced this is notable without proof of significant coverage in Chinese-language sources, but in the meantime can you use the book to verify what you can in this article so we can prune the info cited to very unreliable sources? Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 17:13, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Searching his Chinese name[1] brings up enough coverage, I'd say he passes GNG. Kges1901 (talk) 20:27, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Kges1901: Yes, and as with any article we'd need someone with a knowledge of the language to vet them. A search in English also brings up multiple books, but that doesn't mean they contain significant coverage. In any case, I don't have plans to take further action on that. And to that question I asked–if you have access to the book it would be great if you had a few minutes to match what you can in the article to a page number. I would do it myself but I can't even get a preview on Google Books, and no libraries near me have it. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 14:18, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Kges1901: I wanted to thank you for these edits. :-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 15:06, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]