Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Korea

D.M.Z.

DMZ usually today means DMZ (Korea) not a Christian pop album In ictu oculi (talk) 13:23, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

RfC: Proposal to remove Korean from lead in parentheses

There is an RfC at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section‎‎ proposing to remove CJK in parentheses from the lead (as well as IPA pronunciations). Please do come participate in the discussion. Thanks! TheInfernoX (talk) 15:16, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Korean freeuse license

There is a request at c:Commons:Village pump/Copyright#freeuse.or.kr Korean licenses for help with interpreting a license whose text is in Korean. Can anyone from here help with this? Verbcatcher (talk) 03:30, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Minor point for possible correction

The article Unification Church in its info box says that the classification is Unification Church of the United States. I don't see how this is possible, that a larger entity is a sub-classification of a smaller entity. How about New religious movement for the category? 12.27.66.8 (talk) 19:21, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

c:File:Korea_Expressway_No.255.svg

Is there someone to be able to create c:File:Korea_Expressway_No.255.svg? See also c:Category:Diagrams of South Korean Expressway Sign. --ㅂㄱㅇ (talk) (Bieup Giyeok Ieung) 08:09, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Operation Rat Killer

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Nomination of Operation Rat Killer for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Operation Rat Killer is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Women in Red's new initiative: #1day1woman

		Women in Red is pleased to introduce... A new initiative for worldwide online coverage: #1day1woman
		Create articles on any day of any month Cover women and their works in any field of interest Feel free to add articles in other languages, too Social media hashtag campaign: #1day1woman (To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Ipigott (talk) 11:08, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Grammar information on Korean Verbs page is extremely inaccurate

Hello everyone! Sorry if I'm doing this wrong. This is my first time trying to make any significant changes to a Wikipedia page. Feel free to post (or message me) any tips about how I should be doing this.

Can some folks help clean up the Korean Verbs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_verbs) page? It's inaccurate to a fairly extreme level. Things as basic as how to create the past tense and make a verb negative (I fixed the negative thing). I don't know enough about linguistics yet to correct a lot of it, but I know enough to see how bad it is. I stumbled upon the page when I was trying to find an explanation of 더냐. When I got here I saw that the explanation couldn't possibly be correct (just from my own knowledge of Korean grammar, as 더 has to do with something you directly observe and 냐 is the question form for indirect reported speech) and then saw that huge portions of the page were inaccurate.

Rayanne12 (talk) 16:46, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Deleation of Persona (concert tour)

Can someone explain me why this article is being considered for deletion? I cannot find mistakes....

SONEfr (talk) 11:51, 22 August 2017 (UTC)SONEfr

It's not because there are mistakes. Wikipedia also has notability guidelines (see WP:NTOUR). Random86 (talk) 19:51, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

{{ Invitation to Peace Treaty with North Korea : AfD |Please see}}

Dear Participants of WikiProject Korea,

Thank you for your efforts and contribution of Wikipedia. Please refer to this Invitation to AfD and let us know your opinion for this article whether it should be "Keep", "Delete", "Merge", "Redirect", or other view Comment
on the top page of Peace Treaty with North Korea, please click the link this article's entry for your valuable opinion.

• Reference link : Wikietiquette about AfD

Goodtiming8871 (talk) 09:44, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Template:Chaebol

Please can an editor familiar with Korean industry review {{Chaebol}}, especially the recent edits by a previously blocked IP? For example, Tongyang and STX are listed as defunct but their articles suggest that they are still trading. Thanks, Certes (talk) 10:12, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Are images published in KCNA copyrighted?

In Wikimedia Commons there is the following tag for some works by the DPRK that are in the public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-North_Korea

Which says that some works are in the public domain, according to the Copyright Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, enacted 2001, amended 2006: http://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/kp/kp001en.pdf

This law among other things says:

Article 12 (Exclusion): Documents for state management, current news or information data shall not be the object of copyright unless commercial purpose is pursued.

The language is somewhat vague as to whether the exclusion of copyright of news also applies to news images published by KCNA.

Maybe I am splitting hairs here, but maybe article 14.2 has some bearing on this:

Article 14 (Moral right): The moral right of the copyright owner shall be as follows:

1. the right to determine the publication of their works;

2. the right to make public his name in the works; and

(...)

KCNA-published pictures have no author attribution. Would this be further indication that the DPRK considers them in them to be free of copyright?

I am asking this to the community because I have some interest in uploading images published by KCNA into Wikimedia Commons as I feel there is a lack of imagery on North Korea in numerous wikipedia articles (and I don't see why the broader dissemination of their officially published images would run against their interests, quite the contrary), but want to first seek others' opinions. (Note: this question was originally posted in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Korea/North Korea, but I have not received any responses. I thought I woudl re-post it here where there may be more editors contributing). Thank you.(talk) user:Al83tito 22:35, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

@Al83tito: Moral rights don't factor into copyright. All NK govt images can be used per commons:Template:PD-North Korea, per that template and cited copyright. Would this answer your question? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:04, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Dear Piotrus, thank you for kindly responding to my request for inputs. I have gone ahead and uploaded File:Kim Jong Un Gives Guidance to Nuclear Weaponization (hydrogen bomb) - 2017.jpg, and I have added a comment in its discussion page elaborating on my rationale for inclusion, as well as inviting further comments to be added to this discussion we have already started here. Thank you. (talk) user:Al83tito 03:40, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

• Multiple discussions both here and on Commons have held that KCNA can and does in fact hold copyright to their work. There is a copyright notice clearly displayed at the bottom of their page. If KCNA works were free of copyright, there would be no need for that. Related; the DPRK is a signatory to the Berne Convention. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:34, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

New article proposal under WikiProject Korea

I am a student in the process of planning an article on Mental health in South Korea. Does anyone who is experienced in this project have advice for sources, frameworks, or methods I should use in crafting this article? Thank you! Mhvla (talk) 21:50, 30 September 2017 (UTC)