Deletion of Shinese (3rd nomination)

Comment: The sources provided in the article are not sufficient to demonstrate notability under the . All the same, the basic existence of the breed (at least in terms of meaning something to dog-fanciers) is not in question and the sources in the article do serve to verify that. Is that enough? If this was a species of beetle instead of a breed of dog, there would be no doubt - we do not delete articles on verifiable species, no matter how uninteresting. There is no subject-specific notability guideline for dog breeds, though there was an attempt to establish one Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Dogs/Dog_breeds_task_force/Archive_2#Breeds_notability_guidelines|some years ago in WikiProject Dogs. Nor is there a precedent in the form of common deletion outcomes. The WikiProject discussion is interesting, because there is a strong suggestion that recognition of the breed by the various major kennel clubs would be a bare-minimum requirement for meeting the proposed notability standard. I checked the databases of the American, Canadian and UK kennel clubs, and none of them list any of the variant names of this breed. So this article doesn't meet the GNG, and probably wouldn't meet the subject-specific guideline either, if it existed, which it doesn't. So in the end, sorry, but there's just no basis for calling this notable. If it was recognized as a mainstream breed, I'd probably be arguing along the lines of inherent notability, but it just isn't, so I just amn't. Delete
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)