Talk:Kwak Pom-gi

Noteworthy
I understand your concerns and I am taking appropriate action. North Korea is a secretive state, some information about government officials is known from official North Korean media, other information has been reported in foreign media. I am trying to use library research, instead of just Google, to expand the encyopledia about a largely unknown country. If someone makes it into the paper newspaer in DPRK, then that person is noteworthy. If someone stands next to a Supreme Leader to give a speech that is noteworthy. After all, the person could later fall into a memory hole as in 1984 (book). For example, much of the information about North Korea is from unnamed south korean analysts reported in western news sources. Even, Ri Sol-ju the wife of Kim Jong-un , is lacking definative information because the DPRK sources are scant. So, any North Koraen article will likely be stub class until a major change in the government. Please give me time to flesh out the article but I have to go to the Global Resources Center at the Gelman Libary at George Washington University library.Geraldshields11 (talk) 16:57, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * May I suggest something? If you are dealing with the general category of DPRK officials, and if most of them end up looking like this one here, you shouldn't be putting them each into their own article... that runs into Wikipedia guideline problems (as raised) and practical usefulness problems (really, if we have only one sentence of actual information on someone, then the only places we are likely to link to it is some place that already has the information carried in the sentence.) Instead, you may want to create an article List of North Korean officials; any officials for which you have enough information to sustain an article can be linked to from that article, and you can have the one-sentence list entries for those on which there is such scant information located. --Nat Gertler (talk) 18:14, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Dear Nat Gertler, Thanks for the pointer and I will work on it. Please would you help with the North Korean articles? It seems most of the North Korean articles started as stubs. Then, recently, I have been adding cites and text. As you can see by this article, there is a lot of work to do.
 * On 20 October 2012, I started to create new DPRK articles based on the paper newspaper. Any help would be appriecated. Good health. Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:43, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

where is he now?
the person was on the front page but is now missing. I am doing research to see if he is dead, reassigned, or now an unperson. If I can find proof he is an unperson, then that is worthy of history in action. Geraldshields11 (talk) 17:02, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

I understand the concern that articles about North Korea are currently stub articles and I am taking appropriate action to solve the problem. North Korea is a secretive state, some information about govenrment officials is known from official North Korean media, other information has been reported in foreign media. So, any North Korean article will likely be stub class until a major change in the government. Please give editors time to flesh out the articles. I am seeking consensus to increase understanding that stub articles about North Korea may be all that is possible. Please discuss. Geraldshields11 (talk) 17:41, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * For example, the article About Comics started as a stub but it is not made in a secret society.
 * It looked like this at one time.
 * Revision as of 20:38, 29 November 2009
 * About Comics is a publisher specializing in comics and comics-related material.
 * But as more editors got interested, the one line with no cite acorn grew into a mighty oak of an article. Geraldshields11 (talk) 17:55, 21 October 2012 (UTC)