Talk:Korea TESOL

Korea TESOL page

I'm not sure this is the proper way to respond to your tags on my (our) Wikipage.

I've seen your note for inline references, made some additions. It's hard to add more, since the organization is well-known in certain circles, but outside these, hardly known. See the JALT page, we are partners.

Thanks Robertjdickey (talk) 09:35, 22 January 2019 (UTC) Rob Dickey[reply]

A key element of establishing whether an organization meets the criteria for addition to WP is notability, or WP:GNG. This means that the subject needs a "significant" amount of coverage by "independent" (e.g. can't be from the subject's own sources), quality (e.g. major established sources, like major newspapers etc.) sources (or WP:RS). Most of the sources in this article are primary, or TESOL-sourced, and are therefore not useful. If the "organization is only well-known in certain circles, but outside of these, hardly known", then we run into an issue with notability, and the article will be challenged. I would recommend that you put up the best independent sources that you find, and make sure that any text that is unsourced is removed - articles on organizations with large amounts of text where notability is an issue, raise other flags of promotional activity (e.g. WP:PROM). hope that helps. Britishfinance (talk) 10:13, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I see this. Thanks. Still working on it. Robertjdickey (talk) 12:56, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've added five newspaper references. There are countless more Korean newspaper articles, but they address the same topics. I'm not aware of newspapers that discuss functions of KOTESOL much beyond general "what it is" and the conferences. When I said "certain circles" what I meant was, in the English language teaching community of East Asia. English teachers in other countries might come across the name "KOTESOL" or "Korea TESOL" and want to know more, hence the reasoning for a Wikipedia article. All professional societies are the same, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers thanks! Robertjdickey (talk) 14:53, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]