Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lee Kwang-suk

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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 08:19, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lee Kwang-suk

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No indication of individual notability, not fleshed out and unlikely to be in future. toobigtokale (talk) 09:45, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Football, and South Korea. toobigtokale (talk) 09:45, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The nomination seems like an unlikely claim. 12-year career with several hundred games. A Korean speaker should look at this. Geschichte (talk) 18:31, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am a Korean speaker. toobigtokale (talk) 21:52, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 20:02, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found please ping me. Giant Snowman 20:05, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – More than 100 appearances for Jeonbuk Motors, one of the main teams in South Korea. The article needs improvements, but I don't think it's a reasonable deletion. Svartner (talk) 17:25, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. If a native Korean speaker has not had success finding SIGCOV in Korean, I trust that such coverage does not exist. JoelleJay (talk) 22:53, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The nominator has not given any indication whatsoever that they have tried finding SIGCOV in Korean. Geschichte (talk) 13:06, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've searched and couldn't find anything past a few trivial mentions in passing. To verify, you can Google "이광석" 축구. 김광석 is a different person, also a soccer player that has more significant coverage, hence the exact quotes. There's also a politician and an academic with the name 이광석, hence "축구" ("soccer"). toobigtokale (talk) 14:21, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - @GiantSnowman:, Geschichte has a point... Korean background does not necesarily translate to source finding... I found [1], [2], [3], [4], among many more Korean sources. He definitely has offline sources well, having played for one of most well known Korean teams duirng late 1990s to early 2000s. Article needs improvement, not deletion. Thanks, Das osmnezz (talk) 20:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per sources above; I note (via Google Translate) that his name in the new sources is spelt 'Gwang-seok' rather than 'Kwang-suk'. Giant Snowman 20:16, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Cauon is his university's newspaper and gyeongnamfc.com is one of his clubs which means neither is independent of Lee. Dougal18 (talk) 11:09, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. There was some confusion here, but GNG and SPORTCRIT has been established. His 12-year career with several hundred games strongly hinted at that. Geschichte (talk) 21:10, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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