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The result was merge to Astor House Hotel (Shanghai). Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:49, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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I started editing this and realized I'd seen it all before: this was split off from Astor House Hotel (Shanghai), on which it leans for notability. That Astor article's section has, in the meantime, been pruned somewhat, and this current article, with its excessive amount of trivia sourced mostly to primary sources, is excessively redundant to that article. To put it another way, this place itself is not notable, unless it's in the history of the Astor hotel--where it warrants a mention rather than almost 40k. Drmies (talk) 15:00, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:29, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:29, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mediran (t • c) 01:19, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 19:49, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge. I agree with the nominator that the amount of (impressively well-referenced, by the way) detail on this page is overwhelming, but there's still some useful information to be found, which can be added to the Astor House Hotel (Shanghai)-article. —♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 20:05, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.