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The notability tag has been here more than 3 years, but I don't feel qualified to assess its notability. Timmyshin, I know you're a regular contributor, are you able to improve it, especially its sourcing? Eeekster, Papaursa and Swanny18, do you have any comments as you have both looked at its notability previously? Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 16:29, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Clearly notable, gets 239 results on Google Books (another romanization, "Pai Yu-t'ang" even gets 4). This book by Harvard professor David Der-wei Wang even uses Bai Yutang's illustration as his book cover (see [1] and according to the index, Bai Yutang appears in pages 139-146, that's 8 consecutive pages for a literature survey book.) And if you look at The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants#Television series, at least 4 TV series uses his name or nickname (Sleek Rat) in the title, indicating that he is the main protagonist. Obviously the page can and must be improved, but notability is not the problem. Some of the heroes in the novel like Shen Zhongyuan or the Ding twins are borderline notable or not really notable, but Bai Yutang is arguably the most memorable character in the novel and one of the best-known characters in Chinese literature without a shadow of a doubt. Timmyshin (talk) 09:11, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
