Korea NA‑class

This page is within the scope of WikiProject Korea, a collaborative effort to build and improve articles related to Korea. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how use this banner, please refer to the documentation.KoreaWikipedia:WikiProject KoreaTemplate:WikiProject KoreaKorea-related articles NA This page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/WikiProject used

WikiProject Korea
Founded (2006-09-14) September 14, 2006 (age 17) Articles under scope 39,137 out of 6,839,775 articles. Shortcuts WP:KO WP:Korea Portals North Korea South Korea
Participants Active Inactive
Notice board New articles Article alerts Articles for deletion Popular pages
Departments Assessment Housekeeping
Tasks To do list Cleanup listing Requested articles Cleanup listing Articles needing Hangul
Resources Manual of Style Naming conventions Project banner All templates Reliable sources Article guidelines
Working groups Baseball Film Military history North Korea Popular culture
Related projects CJKV East Asia Korean Intertranswiki WikiProject Korea on Wikimedia Commons

Good evening! I am originally from WikiProject Philippines. And I would like to offer help to WikiProject Korea by translating cities, towns, and provinces of the Philippines into Hangul so as to aid Korean Wikipedians who are interested in creating, editing, and expanding articles that are related to the Philippines. I hope for the immediate response. Thanks! - Merrick Lee, 23:47 21 December 2012 (UTC)

I hear there was a meetup a year ago in Seoul, shouldn't it be listed at Wikipedia:Meetup? Also, any plans for a future one? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 17:16, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There was one last year in Yeouido if I remember correctly. I only saw info posted on the Korean wiki as a banner. Would be interested in attending if I know I can use English as my Korean is alright but limited. Would be interested in one if another is scheduled. ₪RicknAsia₪ 20:10, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Worst case we could try to schedule something ourselves :) Anyone else reading this who is actually in Korea and would like to attend? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:34, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am down for it. Sorry for the late reply as I just saw this now. I bet you can recommend a coffee shop at a good local university ;) ₪RicknAsia₪ 15:34, 9 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I actually spend most of my time at a campus in Ansan, not Seoul, but I am at Hanyang University twice a week. How's your time on Tue or Thur? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:28, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

On those days I end work at 4:30 in central Seoul. I would be available after work either any Tue or Thur. How do those days look for you next week? ₪RicknAsia₪ 15:04, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

file:ErnestBethel.JPG has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 03:56, 12 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if anybody here would be interested in becoming a Wikipedia:Campus Ambassador for the Seoul area? I will be teaching another course in the fall (see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Korea#Korean_students_on_English_Wikipedia) and I am considering allowing students to edit Korean Wikipedia. But I'd need a Korean speaker familiar with Korean Wikipedia to help them out if issues arise there. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:29, 12 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! To complement the North Korea portal on the Chinese Wikipedia, I started Portal:North Korea WhisperToMe (talk) 03:18, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps we can ask {{user North Korea}} Wikipedians in North Korea to help. -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 05:54, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all! I need some help with an article. The article in question is Busan Gaeseong Middle School murder and the biggest issue comes from translation. I can see that the Korean Wikipedia page has an entry ([1]) that has more details and sources. This looks to be potentially notable by the standards here on this Wikipedia, so I'd hate to see this deleted when it could be saved. Basically, I need people to help translate and add information from the Korean sources and establish notability. I'll help where I can, but I don't speak Korean and can only use Google Translate, so I'm working with a serious handicap. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:52, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• I can remove the PROD and it will be forced into AFD. Also you can go on the Korean Wikipedia embassy ko: 위키백과:대사관 and ask for help there. There are some individuals I know on the Korean Wikipedia that can help too WhisperToMe (talk) 19:22, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• I wish I could help but my Korean isn't good. If the article looks like it will most likely get deleted, can somebody just move it as a sub-page under her page? Hate to see something get deleted without preserving the information/work. Jae ₩on (Deposit) 20:11, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • You can post in English at the embassy. A Korean speaker there can help you. Several users on the Korean Wikipedia speak English. WhisperToMe (talk) 20:55, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a notice from Benlisquare about a topic which may interest people here:

It's currently being disputed whether Manchukuo was a puppet state or not. At the moment, I'm trying to compile a list of books and academic papers that refer to Manchukuo as a "puppet state". If anyone would like to help with expanding the list, please add a few more sources to the list at Talk:Manchukuo#NPOV "puppet state". Thanks. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 02:35, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please participate if interested. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 22:43, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is an ongoing discussion about amending Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section to discourage listing non-English names of subjects in the lede sentence of articles, and to encourage moving them to an infobox or footnote. This may be of interest to those of us here at WP:KOREA since our own articles are inconsistent in this regard: some use {{ko-hhrm}} or {{lang-ko}} to include Korean names in the lede sentence, while others use only {{Infobox Korean name}} and don't list any Korean names in the lede, and some do both. In any case, your comments are welcome on the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#Proposal: move most translations and transliterations from lead sentence to footnote. Thanks, quant18 (talk) 04:53, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just want to get people's opinion on the articles that are being created now for Korean given names. The category containing these names can be found here.

In my opinion, this is a useless collection of articles, and the list of names is basically endless. There's no list of English given names, so should there really be a list of Korean names?

Additionally, now the same user who is creating these articles has begun to create articles about individual syllables within given names. Examples include Jae and Young.

I'm curious to see what other people think of this. I just don't think that the creation of these articles improves Wikipedia at all. If they are to exist, perhaps the Wiktionary would be a better place for them since the articles usually include only one sentence explaining that it is a name or a syllable, and then a list of famous people who share the name. Rystheguy (talk) 04:43, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

i will add names soon by --Sunuraju (talk) 04:47, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

because you wrote Nam (Korean name) and Kwang right? i deiced to add Young, Jae and Byung, Woo and many more by --Sunuraju (talk) 05:34, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't write Nam (Korean name) or Kwang. Nam is about a family name, not a given name. It's mentioned in the article that it is also a syllable in some Korean names. Rystheguy (talk) 09:37, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My comments:

1. The WP:OTHERCRAPDOESNTEXIST argument isn't correct; WP:SETINDEX articles about individual given names, listing the original orthography for those names and the Wikipedia articles of people with that given name, are a well-established practise under Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy. See for example the entire category tree Category:Given names by culture.
2. Additionally, there's lists of given names for a number of countries & cultures, both annotated (e.g. List of Irish-language given names) and unannotated (e.g. List of Arabic theophoric names), etc. Along with ranking lists like List of most popular given names by state in the United States.
3. Individual syllable articles are probably useless. If the same syllable is a surname or an actual given name in and of itself, it may be worth mentioning given names containing that syllable as well; the general practise on more well-developed pages (e.g. Bert (name) is to list etymologically related names (e.g. Robert, Bertrand) on the page, but not every individual holder of the names themselves (just those whose name is exactly Bert).
4. I haven't been creating articles about individual syllables in given names, but I cleaned up a number of the really old pre-existing ones (untouched since 2007 or so) like Kyung, Eun, Kwang, etc. which just willy-nilly listed every single person having that syllable in their name (which would have gone to hundreds or thousands of entries if they'd been filled out).
5. Some of these characters are used as surnames as well; surname pages are generally easier to develop as articles in addition to just being set index pages, since there's more data & and other historical material written about them.

Cheers, quant18 (talk) 07:19, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your input, I see your point. The single-syllable articles are the ones that motivated me to write this. I mentioned the given names because I didn't see them being very useful but I can see now after looking at some of the lists you provided that the articles can become more detailed and helpful in some situations. I also wasn't saying that because no list of English names exists, that no Korean list should. I was just saying that if you think of it in terms of English names, it would be silly to try to create articles for every English given name that exists. How would you go about determining if they were all notable? There are new names being created every day, and at what point can you say that a name is notable enough to have its own encyclopaedia article? A list would make more sense, in my opinion, than to create individual articles for every name. As for the single-syllable name articles, I still think they're useless unless, like you said, they are surnames or can stand alone as a complete given name. Rystheguy (talk) 07:57, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

i add Sang-hyun today by --Sunuraju (talk) 04:07, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Question. Can someone comment on whether this diff in line with WP KOREA MOS or general practice? In ictu oculi (talk) 14:50, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

But I'm assuming that this edit is okay with general practice? Some guidance please. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:52, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• "Where relevant, Korean templates should be used in preference to long lists of romanized, Hangul, and Hanja spellings," per MOS:KO. Kauffner (talk) 03:59, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is probably related to the MOS notice a few sections above? -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 04:25, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You show as (at least) one of the teams in the Asian League is Portuguese-- was this team Macanense, before reversion? Otherwise it makes little sense, as Portugal plays in UEFA, not Asia. An explanation "asterisked" to the Portuguese flag might be in order, to minimize confusion.76.104.198.200 (talk) 05:42, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The usage of Na Ri (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see Talk:Na Ry -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 04:18, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File:Korean pottery maepyong 5.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 05:54, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

image:Hyundai Ambition.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 06:10, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See Talk:Lì (chinese surname) for a mess regarding various Lee/Li surnames. -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 04:12, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

User:Shrigley is attempting to associate prostitution issues in South Korea with "Pure blood theory", which have been renamed to Korean ethnic nationalism after two consensus-making processes[2][3]. There is also a controversy whether an interview of ten Korean men is sufficient enough to make sweeping arguments about Korean attitude towards transnational prostitution. Cydevil38 (talk) 11:18, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi folks, could someone take a look at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/South Korea Ballistic Missile Guidelines Revision and see if that's fit for inclusion. I'm not comfortable making a decision on that when it is a potentially loaded issue which may subtly misrepresent things I am not aware off. Thanks, Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 20:53, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Since WP:JAPAN has already been notified here, I thought that it would be equally fair to notify WikiProject Korea as well. On Commons, File:8-2earthquake-kanto.jpg, which is an old photograph of a Korean being killed by Japanese vigilantes following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, has been nominated for deletion. For those who are interested, feel free to participate in the discussion. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 10:50, 1 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article NEASS is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NEASS until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 21:14, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

can anyoune make an article? http://via.sawd.ch/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3JidGguYXNpYS9hcnRpY2xlcy8yMDEyLzA4LzIxL2tvcmVhbl9jYXJyb3RfMTY0MDUuaHRtbA%3D%3D (Idot (talk) 11:05, 6 July 2013 (UTC))[reply]

FYI, this may touch on the area of concern of your wikiproject's topic. See Wikipedia talk:Article titles#Inadequacy of current WP:UE guideline with regard to Chinese names -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 06:18, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Recommend either replacing the caricature with the statue memorialized by the Republic of Korea government. See attachment.

Subject: Article on Yun Gwan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yun_Gwan

I can't seem to attach the photo. Please contact me on my email: insungolee@gmail.com and whomever does the editing, I will send you the photo. Thanks in advance.

InSung Oaks Lee

많이 왜곡되고 특정 지지세력-현재 한국의 진보세력이라고 일컬어지는 분들이 좋아할 만한 내용으로 가득하네요. 객관성이 떨어진다고 보여집니다. 적어도 한국 법이 어떤 원리애 따라 제정되고 검찰이 어떤 위치를 갖는지 법률적인 관점이 아니라 특정 세력-국회법사위나 자칭 진보세력들이 원하는대로 글을 썼다는 것이 명백하개 보여집니다.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Prosecutors%27_Office_of_the_Republic_of_Korea

This article is too biased and negative toward korean prosecution service in general. It seems that the author described Korean prosecution service from too controversial cases. Actually the right wing(half of the population supports some prosecution cases while the left wing blames them. The author wrote and understand all the mentioned cases from radical or leftist views.

image:Kim Jong-un.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:38, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Are these common ways of writing the same thing in Korean? 南山 is a disambiguation page on English WP and includes several entries for Namshan. The linked article on the Korean WP is [4], which to my ignorant eyes appears to be a different set of characters, however 南山 does appear in parentheses several times in the article, thus my question. The reason I'm asking is that 南山 has been nominated for deletion, and I'm wondering if it's reasonable to include the Namshan entries on the page.--Wikimedes (talk) 19:02, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

They are the same word, one in the hangul form and the other in the hanja form. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 03:33, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.--Wikimedes (talk) 02:54, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Somebody is making a concerted effort to remove names in Hangul from the lead sentence of articles about Korean people. If interested, please see discussion at ANI. Thanks. – Wdchk (talk) 02:10, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There was a discussion at one of the guideline pages pushing for the removal of non-Latin-characters from the intro sentences as well. See #MOS discussion about removing non-Roman script names from lede sentence. Perhaps they are related? -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 07:05, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone else having trouble accessing http://www.jeonnam.go.kr/? I have refreshed staistical data of the provinces from the official provincial websites but this one has not been accessible for months now. Anyone knows how to contact the province to let them know about this issue? Thanks a lot Teemeah ^{편지 (letter)} 08:27, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Works for me. Should contact your ISP. — Lfdder (talk) 08:43, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. I tried several times, from home, from the office (different internet provider there), from Chrome, IE and FF... Doesn't work... Teemeah ^{편지 (letter)} 09:10, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I tried from yet another computer in another system and it is working from there. It seems like the website tries to make me download an exe file and for this reason my usual computers (office and home) are filtering the website. Teemeah ^{편지 (letter)} 10:43, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File:Jms in vietnam.jpg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 08:51, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

image:Destroyed8H Cromwell.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 07:05, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I started Yunggimun, as I found a passing claim in a book I am reading - that it is "the oldest style of Korean pottery" - interesting. But I cannot find enough in English or Polish sources to even make half a stub; perhaps a Korean speaker could help expand this? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:57, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello guys! I created this article to have a comprehensive starting point for the many scattered articles about heritage preservation. I also created a complementing navbox. Could we do a peer review on the article? I would like to nominate it for GA or FA. Kamsahamnida! Teemeah ^{편지 (letter)} 11:48, 3 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

image:President Geun-hye.png has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:51, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I believe Shin KwangHo is a notable figure in the art world. I have added more citations as well and more text. Can someone take a look at this and see if notability is an issue or not? Thank you. (Pastelchu (talk) 23:37, 6 August 2013 (UTC))[reply]

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_August_4, a discussion is opened to delete the template "Infobox Korean Provinces". May be you have an opinion about this discussion. Remark: at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_August_5, there is another discussion about deleting the template "Infobox Province of China (PRC)" Pldx1 (talk) 07:41, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]