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You posted a note to my talk page that cited my comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pablo Ganguli, and said You are VERY wrong! Please get your facts right. He has directed a great number of festivals all over the world and they are all renowned featuring eminent world-class personalities. and Connect UK is the UK's south pacific cultural diplomacy body which he founded and directed at the age of 17. not in charge of anything at all? Remember - ignorance is not an excuse?
I notice that you've not been able to convince other editors that the links you've provided meet WP:RS standards. So perhaps this page would be a good place to have some further discussion on that, before you spend a lot of time writing (more) articles that will just get deleted. For example, what links can you provide (below, not on my talk page) that show that Mr. Ganguli has directed (let's say) at least THREE "renowned" festivals, and that they featured "world-class" personalities? John Broughton | Talk 02:49, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
let me know if you want more links. i work closely for a company that does mr ganguli's events management in london.
Okay, there should be an article on him. One thing, first: you need to read WP:COI, since that limits what you should do.
I suggest starting by getting a copy of the last (now deleted article) put into your user space, where you (and I can help) can get it into shape to be put back as a Wikipedia article, in such good condition that no one would even think about suggesting it for deletion. Getting such a copy is called userification; you do it by requesting a copy here. When you've done that, please let me know (mention that the deletion was on November 18th via AfD). John Broughton | Talk 17:14, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
The page has been deleted and locked once again as you continue to recreate the article. I have told you before to take the matter to Deletion review. If there is consensus there to recreate the article then the page will be unlocked and the article created. - Aksi_great ( talk) 19:07, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
The article is now at User:Zeouspom/Pablo Ganguli. I've removed all the promotional wording; please do NOT put it back. Think about writing an article that will be in Encylopedia Briticannica, not a press release, please. To that end, I suggest reading WP:NPOV and WP:V in addition to the other policies mentioned above.
The goal is to edit the article WHERE IT IS. Do not move it, copy it to another location, use parts of it for a new article, copy parts of it to other articles, or otherwise do anything but add to it.
I suggest starting by
I've very hesitant about you adding text to the article until you've mastered how to do citations. That's because virtually every sentence in the article probably should be referenced/footnoted. Take a look at George Allen (politician) as an example of how many sentences are footnoted. So once you've mastered how to do a cite (it's not that hard, really; I suggest editing the whole page and doing previews), THEN you should add text and a cite; add more text and another cite, and so on. If you just add text, you're going to have to go back and figure out where the information came from and THEN add a cite. John Broughton | Talk 22:01, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
many thanks indeed. please have a look at the page now and advise when you have a moment. Zeouspom 09:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
You wrote there was a huge article in october about him in the saturday times magazine and all his future festivals but there is no onliny version sadly of the piece. Wikipedia doesn't require a source to be online in order to be used. It's helpful, of course, and offline sources are regarded a bit more skeptically, but if they're accessible in a library, they certainly are acceptable for Wikipedia if they meet WP:RS.
Would you be willing to post, here, the text that you'd like to add to the article? (There are copyright issues if a large amount of text from a source goes into a Wikipedia article unchanged, so if you can post here what you think is the most relevant parts of the article, I'll pick and chose from that, and change some wording, and add it to the Wikipedia article we're working on.) Thanks. John Broughton | Talk 01:51, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the additional sources you posted on my talk page. I'd already looked at all of them, and decided that they didn't have anything additional to add to the article. (Yes, they described Ganguli in different ways, but the fastest way to get this article rejected is to make it look like a vanity piece, with different folks gushing over Ganguli - how much he's accomplished, how exotic he looks, how surprised they were, etc.) At this point, we really have enough articles describing the two festivals that have taken place; more citations just look like we're adding citations for the sake of citations, which isn't good.
What I'd really like, to finish the article and get it put in Wikipedia officially (it's already coming up pretty high in Google searches, by the way), is anything on the Russian and Turkish festivals. Do you have any links to official websites for these festivals? Any link to any news article that even mentions them? If not, we're going to have cut the text back to something like "Ganguli has also discussed holding a festival in St. Petersburg in October 2007 and a festival in Turkey in 2008, but nothing has been officially announced." So any links that you can provide would be greatly appreciated. John Broughton | Talk 23:12, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
You'll find the article listed at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 January 8. Please do NOT modify the article under ANY circumstances until the deletion review is finished. If it needs changes, let me know. Also, I strongly recommend AGAINST your commenting at the deletion review - let others decide. John Broughton | Talk 00:01, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
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A belated welcome, which I have put at the top of your talk page for your convenience. NinaEliza ( talk • contribs • count • logs • email) 02:16, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
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Welcome to Wikipedia! We could really use your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as Majestic Petra Festival) are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. If you want to test things out, edit the sandbox instead. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. -- cj | talk 13:43, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
You posted a note to my talk page that cited my comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pablo Ganguli, and said You are VERY wrong! Please get your facts right. He has directed a great number of festivals all over the world and they are all renowned featuring eminent world-class personalities. and Connect UK is the UK's south pacific cultural diplomacy body which he founded and directed at the age of 17. not in charge of anything at all? Remember - ignorance is not an excuse?
I notice that you've not been able to convince other editors that the links you've provided meet WP:RS standards. So perhaps this page would be a good place to have some further discussion on that, before you spend a lot of time writing (more) articles that will just get deleted. For example, what links can you provide (below, not on my talk page) that show that Mr. Ganguli has directed (let's say) at least THREE "renowned" festivals, and that they featured "world-class" personalities? John Broughton | Talk 02:49, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
let me know if you want more links. i work closely for a company that does mr ganguli's events management in london.
Okay, there should be an article on him. One thing, first: you need to read WP:COI, since that limits what you should do.
I suggest starting by getting a copy of the last (now deleted article) put into your user space, where you (and I can help) can get it into shape to be put back as a Wikipedia article, in such good condition that no one would even think about suggesting it for deletion. Getting such a copy is called userification; you do it by requesting a copy here. When you've done that, please let me know (mention that the deletion was on November 18th via AfD). John Broughton | Talk 17:14, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
The page has been deleted and locked once again as you continue to recreate the article. I have told you before to take the matter to Deletion review. If there is consensus there to recreate the article then the page will be unlocked and the article created. - Aksi_great ( talk) 19:07, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
The article is now at User:Zeouspom/Pablo Ganguli. I've removed all the promotional wording; please do NOT put it back. Think about writing an article that will be in Encylopedia Briticannica, not a press release, please. To that end, I suggest reading WP:NPOV and WP:V in addition to the other policies mentioned above.
The goal is to edit the article WHERE IT IS. Do not move it, copy it to another location, use parts of it for a new article, copy parts of it to other articles, or otherwise do anything but add to it.
I suggest starting by
I've very hesitant about you adding text to the article until you've mastered how to do citations. That's because virtually every sentence in the article probably should be referenced/footnoted. Take a look at George Allen (politician) as an example of how many sentences are footnoted. So once you've mastered how to do a cite (it's not that hard, really; I suggest editing the whole page and doing previews), THEN you should add text and a cite; add more text and another cite, and so on. If you just add text, you're going to have to go back and figure out where the information came from and THEN add a cite. John Broughton | Talk 22:01, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
many thanks indeed. please have a look at the page now and advise when you have a moment. Zeouspom 09:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
You wrote there was a huge article in october about him in the saturday times magazine and all his future festivals but there is no onliny version sadly of the piece. Wikipedia doesn't require a source to be online in order to be used. It's helpful, of course, and offline sources are regarded a bit more skeptically, but if they're accessible in a library, they certainly are acceptable for Wikipedia if they meet WP:RS.
Would you be willing to post, here, the text that you'd like to add to the article? (There are copyright issues if a large amount of text from a source goes into a Wikipedia article unchanged, so if you can post here what you think is the most relevant parts of the article, I'll pick and chose from that, and change some wording, and add it to the Wikipedia article we're working on.) Thanks. John Broughton | Talk 01:51, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the additional sources you posted on my talk page. I'd already looked at all of them, and decided that they didn't have anything additional to add to the article. (Yes, they described Ganguli in different ways, but the fastest way to get this article rejected is to make it look like a vanity piece, with different folks gushing over Ganguli - how much he's accomplished, how exotic he looks, how surprised they were, etc.) At this point, we really have enough articles describing the two festivals that have taken place; more citations just look like we're adding citations for the sake of citations, which isn't good.
What I'd really like, to finish the article and get it put in Wikipedia officially (it's already coming up pretty high in Google searches, by the way), is anything on the Russian and Turkish festivals. Do you have any links to official websites for these festivals? Any link to any news article that even mentions them? If not, we're going to have cut the text back to something like "Ganguli has also discussed holding a festival in St. Petersburg in October 2007 and a festival in Turkey in 2008, but nothing has been officially announced." So any links that you can provide would be greatly appreciated. John Broughton | Talk 23:12, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
You'll find the article listed at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 January 8. Please do NOT modify the article under ANY circumstances until the deletion review is finished. If it needs changes, let me know. Also, I strongly recommend AGAINST your commenting at the deletion review - let others decide. John Broughton | Talk 00:01, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
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