. No consensus prior to relist, and no further comments after the relist. (non-admin closure) Steel1943 (talk) 18:31, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
Misleading because this institution is not the national library. It merely acts as a "quasi-national library" (International Dictionary of Library Histories) alongside the actual National Central Library (North Korea), for which we don't have an article. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 15:23, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
- KEEP. According to International Dictionary of Library Histories, there is no report about the “National Central Library” anymore after 1971, seems it disappeared, or, a reasonable peculation could be that it just move or became a part of the Grand Study Hall of the People: National Central Library is the predecessor of People's Study House before 1982. Plus, according to this story （https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20773542）by BBC magazine in 2007, the Goethe Institute, clearly called their North Korean partner, the Grand Study Hall of the People, as North Korea's national library. As the Goethe Institute runs long time programmes with the North Korean government, they must pretty sure about the situation there, could not make a mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 安眠3 (talk • contribs) --Garam (talk) 10:54, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
::Here is the full quote from International Dictionary of Library Histories:
::{{quote|North Korea also has a national library, which came into being in 1946 when the Pyongyang Public Library was designated as the national library of North Korea, subsequently changing its name to the National Central Library. ... In 1964 the collection of the National Central Library was approximately 1,500,000 volumes. This increased to about 2,300,000 volumes by 1971. Since then, officially reliable data about the National Central Library have not been reported. North Korea also has a quasi-national library, the People's Great Learning Center, founded in 1982 to celebrate the 70th birthday of Kim Il Sung.}}
::This is a specialist source, acknowledges both libraries, and based on information available to them – even though limited – explicitly decides to call one of them the national library instead of the other. The source gives absolutely no preponderance to {{u|安眠3}}'s theory that Grand People's Study House was elevated to national library status sometime after 1971. The national library is not the only North Korean institution for which reliable data has been unavailable for decades but scholars still assume it exists (e.g. Central Bureau of Statistics). As for the BBC source, it's a single casual remark in a piece about something completely else, likely a mistake made by a non-expert. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 22:03, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
- Weak delete 安眠3 makes a very strong argument, but it's so difficult to look into North Korea. There are two things I'll say with the information we have available: 1) the GPSH functions a lot like a national library, and 2) though it has a stronger historical claim, we really can't be sure whether the National Central Library still exists or functions like a national library. I completely understand the desire to fill in "[Foo] of [Country]" topics, but I'd rather leave it to search results than risk WP:OR. --BDD (talk) 19:52, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
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