The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was redirect‎ to FC Concordia Basel. We generally don't Redirect player's articles to team pages as players can change teams but I see support here for this ATD. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:25, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pak Chol-ryong (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

Article fails WP:GNG. Simione001 (talk) 04:36, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of North Korea-related deletion discussions. Simione001 (talk) 04:36, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Simione001 (talk) 04:36, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Simione001 (talk) 04:36, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: fails WP:SIGCOV, only found a source from 2008 from France 24 Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 07:38, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 12:36, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. GiantSnowman 15:57, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment @Miminity and GiantSnowman: I am slightly confused by your straight up delete arguments. There is clearly some noted history here, along with the France24 news and swissinfo.ch clearly says Swiss second-division side Concordia Basel has signed up the first two North Korean football players ever to be hired by a European club. I would strongly suggest that we should redirect to FC Concordia Basel, I am also disappointed this was not a redirect either, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kim Kuk-jin. Govvy (talk) 21:40, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Why? The Swiss second division is not even a pro league. Simione001 (talk) 22:01, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  I never even mentioned the league, I mentioned the club they played for. I am unsure about [1], is that a mirror of an article? Or it's own article? There is some WP:SUSTAINED with this article [2]. However I did have a good look and I felt maybe a redirect to the Swiss club is a good alt to deletion. I still feel there is some meat on the bone for an article. I wouldn't mind a keep here. Govvy (talk) 09:25, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  A redirect is fine. GiantSnowman 17:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to the Swiss team. I looked for articles in Korean and could only find passing mentions of him, mostly about some plays he made during the football games that were part of the South-North Workers' Unification Conference for the Implementation of the June 15th [ko]. ~ F4U (talk • they/it) 03:46, 7 September 2024 (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.