Deletion of EasyMandarin

Comment: I would tag this as G11 in it's current state. I am not convinced on it's notability and think it fails . &mdash
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NCORP)

Comment: In their comment above, {{u|Curb Safe Charmer}} (the nominator of this AFD) opens with a note about me claiming I am "the article's creator and only contributor". This article had 38 editors contribute to it according to the statistics https://xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/EasyMandarin. I am not sure why the editor thought this was relevant to note, but yes, I created this article for a college assignment years ago after attending the school's summer program. I am defending this article not only because I created it, but because I believe it is a notable school with proper references and written in a neutral tone according to Wikipedia guidelines. Wikipedia has a history of accepting Private_schools such as the one in this article, and currently continues to do so. There is an argument to be made that both private and public schools are run as businesses, and there are thousands and thousands of school articles included in Wikipedia. The reason that I wrote "I believe this article was probably tagged AfD primarily because the reference links that helped to establish notability were dead links, and understandably caused the editor to see the organization as an unremarkable school." was because the editor that tagged this AFD for discussion went on holiday (accordging to their talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Curb_Safe_Charmer) after tagging AFD, and was not participating in the discussion that the editor created. The article in this AFD was not given an opportunity to fix the dead links and other article issues raised. Rather than being tagged {{tlx|refimprove}} , {{tlx|primary sources}}, or {{tlx|notability}} to fix, it was immediately tagged  which automatically adds a bias and paints a negative picture of the article for editors viewing and evaluating for the first time
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:AFD)

Comment: In their reply to the article, {{u|Parkertony}} (the article's creator and only main contributor) wrote "I believe this article was probably tagged AfD primarily because the reference links that helped to establish notability were dead links, and understandably caused the editor to see the organization as an unremarkable school." I thought the nomination was perfectly clear, but as the nominator I will reiterate that the article makes no claims to notability. Wikipedia is |not a directory of businesses. It is an encyclopedia. Why does an article about this school belong in an encyclopedia? I see nothing in the article's content to justify its inclusion. It appears to me to be a business listing. As for the newly added references, we should all look at them one by one and narrow down which, if any, meet the criteria described in 
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTYELLOW||WP:NCORP)

Comment: Regarding notability. I believe that the school being selected and written about in Time Out (magazine) article "The best Chinese language classes in Shanghai", being written about in industry magazines (Language magazine and Study/Travel Magazine), and the founder being interviewed and school written about in a China news site (GB Times) meets notability guidelines. Of course, some editors may not find that these items make it notable. As mentioned above, I think it is a good idea for editors to also look at the level of notability that was and is acceptable of other private school articles on Wikipedia as a reference to maintain consistency in the encyclopedia per 
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:OSE)