Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tongil Tours


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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 19:07, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Tongil Tours

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As per the AFD on Lupine Travel this is another non-notable travel company with the article being created largely for promotional purposes, created by a conflict of interest editor who is the subject of the article. There is only one source stated in the article which actually refers specifically to the company in question. Most of the sources include only a brief reference to the company and cover North Korean travel in general, or they are about the individual as a person who founded the company and his experience in North Korea. The service they promote of "language study tours" in North Korea is not unique, there are several other firms offering this- TF92 (talk) 18:47, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 18:53, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 18:53, 23 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete as not notable. Perhaps something could be merged into Tourism in North Korea. There are related discussions at Articles for deletion/Lupine Travel and Articles for deletion/Young Pioneer Tours. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:54, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete as a non-notable organization due to a lack of independent sources. SportingFlyer (talk) 23:29, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - not the subject of significant coverage in reliable secondary sources. The refs are almost entirely passing mentions, sufficient to prove that the company exists but not enough to provide any further notable information. There's some coverage of the company's founder (the Huffington Post article), but again the company is only mentioned in passing. -- Euryalus (talk) 09:38, 24 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Note- A Conflict of Interest concerned anonymous IP address has since attempted to edit the article adding more sources about himself . The IP address traces to Australia, which is the location of the company owner in question (without revealing his identity as per wikipedia policy). As this article concerns his only edit, we can assume it is certainly that person. As according to wikipedia policy, I have reverted these edits to prevent the owner of the business from attempting to influence the deletion discussion--Antonian Sapphire (talk) 12:47, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Ridiculous leap of logic aside, just raising the issue that user: Antonian Sapphire has agreed not to edit any North Korea-related articles, yet has just made edits to this despite acknowledged COI

Apologies, just fixing failed ping, refer above. 58.179.211.176 (talk) 10:29, 27 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Note- This IP address is the owner of the business in question and has a clear WP:COI in this topic. WLC has also been indefinitely blocked from wikipedia for violation of harassment policy- Antonian Sapphire (talk) 11:26, 27 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:ORGIND. scope_creep (talk) 14:33, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:NOTYELLOWPAGES, fails WP:GNG. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 11:27, 1 March 2018 (UTC)


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