Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of common Chinese surnames
Invalid criteria are used for nomination to begin with.  The genealogical clause in #DIR pertains to biographical articles, stating that biographical articles must be about notable persons.  This article is not biographical, nor does it even list any people.   is also invalid, as the list does not even state the meanings of the surnames, and it can't be used in a dictionary function.  This list is a researched and published list of the 100 most common Chinese surnames.  The article is actually about such a list that is published in real life.  It's not a list that's just gathered together by WP editors.  Furthermore, it lists rankings of how common the surnames were in both 2006 and 1990, such that readers can compare the commonality rankings of different surnames, and also of commonality rankings of the same surname between 2006 and 1990.  This alone makes the article encyclopedic.  The fact that it lists the Korean and Vietnamese equivalents of these surnames actually make the article ''more'' encyclopedic.  And whether or not it's just a list of common surnames in the PRC alone is, firstly, as yet undetermined, and secondly, not grounds for deletion at all
— User:HongQiGong, 00:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOT||WP:WINAD (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)