Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/East Pyongyang Grand Theatre

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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 keep. Singularity 06:09, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] East Pyongyang Grand Theatre

East Pyongyang Grand Theatre (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

Non-notable

Although we have multiple news stories that name this theater, I don't the theater itself is notable. The DPRK is very unlikely to publish pertinent information so we can expand the article beyond the single mention of the concert. We need another similarly historic concert held there before the venue itself merits its own article.

  • Weak delete, with WP:CSB reservations. It may be possible to better source this article using Korean-language sources. At the very least there's an argument for disambiguating the Pyongyang Grand Theatre and the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre. But I can't find much in the way of online English-language sources for an article. --Dhartung | Talk 08:01, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep as legitimate stub per WP:CSB. I'm persuaded the community can support this article. --Dhartung | Talk 22:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. Plenty of ghits, and not all in relation to the New York Philharmonic visit. There's an article on Nepalnews.com (scroll down a bit) about the theatre's reconstruction. Why would the DPRK be "very unlikely to publish pertinent information"? PC78 (talk) 08:18, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. Agree with PC78 (talk · contribs), whose comment indicates some coverage in WP:RS/WP:V secondary sources, coverage also in older articles and news archives. Cirt (talk) 09:29, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep - It is a notable and big theatre in Pyongyang, North Korea. If searching it with 동평양 대극장 in Korean, you can see many results from it. The article is just at stub status. --Appletrees (talk) 12:07, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep - There are plenty of verifiable sources about its notable role in the 2008 visit by the philharmonic. I'm sure more sources are available in Korean, but I don't read Korean. It needs work, but I don't think it needs deletion simply because its a stub. will381796 (talk) 14:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Plethora of reliable sources to establish notability. See here [1]. Wisdom89 (T / C) 17:15, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep per Appletrees and others, the notability of this threatre is overwhelming, Mzoli's pales in comparison. (jarbarf) (talk) 03:37, 23 March 2008 (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.