Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/An Boyun


 * 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 delete. Stifle (talk) 10:02, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

An Boyun

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Does not appear to meet WP:AUTHOR. – Ploni (talk) 22:42, 23 June 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 22:44, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and Korea. Ploni (talk) 22:42, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. pburka (talk) 23:55, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Ploni has nominated 18 authors for deletion since Wednesday, all with very brief rationales like this one. The article says that she's won multiple literary awards, and the nominator has made no effort to explain why we should discount those. pburka (talk) 23:58, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the comment. I have been unable to find significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject. As it stands, all of the article's references are to her publisher's website or the online bookstore YES24, which sells her books. The Munhakdongne Writer Award is given out by her publisher, while I've been unable to find significant coverage of The Jaeum & Moeum Literature Prize (자음과모음 청소년문학상, which appears to be for works by youth). –Ploni (talk) 01:18, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
 * In the future, Ploni, it would be ideal if you could offer a similar analysis for each AFD nomination rather than just stating that the bio doesn't meet WP:AUTHOR or doesn't meet WP:NACTOR or "Appears to fail WP:GNG." Editors who respond to AFD nominations have to put in work to look at the existing sources and maybe search for new sources so the nominator should as well. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 22:43, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Star   Mississippi  01:56, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - The article does appear to fail both WP:GNG and WP:AUTHOR. While winning certain awards was a criteria of Notability (artists) (failed proposal), that is a failed proposal which did not gain consensus and is not recognized on Wikipedia as a consideration for notability and WP:AUTHOR does not list awards as an indicator of notability. However even within the context of that failed proposal, neither the Munhakdongne Writer Award nor the Jaeum & Moeum Literature Prize appear to be notable awards in any respect. I was able to find a few scant mentions of the author An Boyun online but they were all Wordpress blog interviews and other unreliable sources. I will say, however, that it is difficult to find information under the name An Boyun, in part because searches online keep turning up Turkish phrases such as "Tanrı'ya her an boyun eğin" which translates to "Submit to God at all times" as well as countless other Turkish sentences which happen to contain "...an boyun..." as part of the sentence, even when adding words such as "author" to the search query. I went pretty far into the search results but I will concede that it is possible that there are search results being buried under the weight of unrelated Turkish phrases that I just wasn't able to find. There is also the fact that An Boyun is a South Korean author who writes in Korean, a language which I do not speak. That means I'm potentially ignorant of an entire language's worth of potential sources that I just can't read. With that in mind I am saying that I do not consider the article notable with the information I have on hand. If someone is able to find additional sources or information, please share it here and ping me and I will gladly reassess what I have said. But with what I know and was able to find, the article just doesn't meet the standards or either WP:GNG or WP:AUTHOR. - Aoidh (talk) 03:18, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete on account of subject's failing the notability criterion, as shown in Aoidh's exemplary forensics. It's a purely promotional text filled with fluff, such as "her works are filled with such violence". For some reason, the creator of the page posted up in 2017 an avalanche of poorly sourced texts about South Korean poets. But first things first. -The Gnome (talk) 18:33, 14 July 2022 (UTC)


 * 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.