Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kang Kuk-chol (footballer, born 1988)

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:37, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kang Kuk-chol (footballer, born 1988)

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Article fails WP:GNG. Bear in mind there are two other footballers with the same name. Simione001 (talk) 23:08, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Asia-related deletion discussions. Simione001 (talk) 23:10, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Simione001 (talk) 23:08, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Simione001 (talk) 23:08, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Korea-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:54, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:35, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found please ping me. Giant Snowman 20:49, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I've no idea what to do with this one - there's no real coverage of him, but that's probably because he's from North Korea. From a pure policy perspective, it should probably be deleted, but I've seen several other stub articles for footballers with people strongly on the 'keep' side, even though they played for like three seasons and media coverage is limited to a couple archived newspaper blurbs.

But forget all that for a second - while starting a search on him, I discovered that there are three different North Korean footballers named "Kang Kuk-chol." They were all born within about a decade of each other, are almost exactly the same height, all play the same position (defender), and two of them even allegedly played on the national team in the same year. If that's accurate, that's absolutely hilarious. If there weren't headshots of them on the (very sparse) source links, I wouldn't believe it. That said, it's North Korea, so I'm not really inclined to believe it. Are we sure at least two of these aren't the same guy? Kalethan (talk) 15:57, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It wouldn't surprise me if two of them were indeed the same. North Korean football is such a mystery to me and I'd love it to explore it further but you never know what sources to actually trust. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:53, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Already PROD'd, not eligible for Soft Deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:10, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Searching Kang's name and football in Korean yields no useful sources, which perhaps isn't surprising since he plays football in North Korea. Unfortunately, this means the article is unlikely to ever satisfy WP:GNG. Jogurney (talk) 12:58, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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