Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sungho kang


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:29, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Sungho kang

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Unreferenced biography, couldn't find reliable sources either. Diego Grez (talk) 03:25, 23 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment: it appears there's an article in the Korean Wikipedia for Dr Kang as "Kang Sungho (Historian)". (Having no Korean, I can't comment any further.) --Shirt58 (talk) 12:36, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It is written by the same single purpose account,, who commented below. cab (call) 00:55, 30 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment: there are some reliable sources about Professor Kang such as Historical World of Prof. Dr. Sungho Kang,Devision of Humanities at Sunchon National University, Ramon Grosfoguel's webpage of Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jgkim408 (talk • contribs) 15:05, 23 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment: there is another reliable sources about Sungho Kang's book: Geopolitics and Trajectories of Development: The Cases of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, and Puerto Rico  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jgkim408 (talk • contribs) 09:09, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * That is his own website, the website of his co-editor on one of his books, and the website of the publisher. These are not independent sources. cab (call) 00:55, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:05, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete In Korean, the name alone is too common to serve as a useful search term, but I can find absolutely no independent reliable sources whatsoever about any of his books:
 * --- 9 ghits. Booksellers and the CVs of the people who wrote it or contributed chapters.
 * (Marx' theory of historical materialism and historical development) --- 28 ghits, just booksellers and libraries
 * (Research into Marxism in South Korea after the 1980s) --- 19 ghits, just booksellers and libraries
 * (Postmodernism and History) --- 115 non-duplicate ghits, just booksellers, libraries, and essay mill papers
 * (Towards a new Marxist study of history) --- 54 non-duplicate Ghits, just booksellers, libraries, and more essay mills
 * (Guide to 21st century history) --- 48 Ghits, just booksellers, libraries, and blogs
 * (Marxism and Politics) --- 78 non-duplicate ghits, just booksellers and libraries
 * (Ethnic Problems in Central Europe; not 중유럽문제와 민족문제 as misquoted on Korean wikipedia) --- 60 non-duplicate ghits, just booksellers and blogs
 * (Historical comprehension of contemporary world systems theory) --- 65 non-duplicate ghits. Booksellers, libraries, essay mills, blogs.
 * Don't see any evidence of passing WP:PROF. cab (call) 00:55, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
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