User talk:Gsmakan

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Pandit Debojyoti Gupta Ji (Sitarist)


A tag has been placed on Draft:Pandit Debojyoti Gupta Ji (Sitarist), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Two comments

 * 1) It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account.
 * 2) I was rather amused to read "This page is not unambiguously promotional! Pandit Debojyoti Gupta is a living legend. He is one of the world's leading Sitarists. He performs worldwide and has dedicated his life to the instrument, ensuring there is a legacy by teaching and passing down his knowledge. This wikipedia page will educate people on the tradition of Sitar from technique, to the guru shishya parampara (the indian classical way of learning an instrument which involves undertaking immense studies)." To try to persuade someone that a page you wrote wasn't promotional by first posting further promotion of that person, and then explaining what a good job of promotion the page would serve is quite remarkable. JBW (talk) 14:31, 11 November 2021 (UTC)