User talk:Asmackjoyp

Welcome!
Hello, Asmackjoyp, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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What notability means, and how to write articles
(As I've also explained on User talk:BChakroborty62): On Wikipedia, notability means that there are multiple professionally-published academic or journalistic sources that are specifically about the subject, provide in-depth coverage of the subject, but are not dependent upon or affiliated with the subject.

So, of the two sources that were cited:
 * This one barely mentions Arghya Bose and is affiliated with him.
 * This one is written by Arghya Bose and so affiliated with him.

Thus, notability was not established.

If you want to try to write an article, here's the steps you should follow (that are almost guaranteed to work without any risk of deletion):
 * 1) Gather as many professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources you can find.
 * 2) Focus on just the ones that are not dependent upon or affiliated with the subject, but still specifically about the subject and providing in-depth coverage (not passing mentions). If you do not have at least three such sources, the subject is not yet notable and trying to write an article at this point will only fail.
 * 3) Summarize those sources from step 2, adding citations at the end of them. You'll want to do this in a program with little/no formatting, like Microsoft Notepad or Notepad++, and not in something like Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer.
 * 4) Combine overlapping summaries (without arriving at new statements that no individual source supports) where possible, repeating citations as needed.
 * 5) Paraphrase the whole thing just to be extra sure you've avoided any copyright violations or plagiarism.
 * 6) Post this draft and wait for approval.
 * 7) Expand the article using sources you put aside in step 2 (but make sure they don't make up more than half the sources for the article, and make sure that affiliated sources don't make up more than half of that).

Doing something besides those steps typically results in the article not being approved, or even in its deletion. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:39, 24 March 2018 (UTC)