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Speedy deletion nomination of Barada Charan Gupta

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A tag has been placed on Barada Charan Gupta, 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, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Barada Charan Gupta.jpeg

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Proposed deletion of Barada Charan Gupta

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Weasel words everywhere, mostly unsourced, no inlines, non-notable

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File permission problem with File:Barada Charan Gupta.jpg

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Sources

Hello. Please review Wikipedia:Verifiability. Interviews and private correspondences need to be published or otherwise accessible to others in order to be usable. Since such information cannot be verified, it cannot be used as sources in Barada Charan Gupta or any other article. You may also find it useful to read Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. If sources are not found for the information, then it may be removed from the article. It can be restored once sources have been found. Thank you. Grayfell (talk) 06:09, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

About verifying sources on wikipedia for Barada Charan Gupta article

This is about the citations I included from interviews with a son and a daughter of B C Gupta. While I understand the preference for a published interview, much of history did not get published during the colonial age, and especially all the Indians who refused the imperial titles did not have publications on them. Not unless they were extremely famous in some other sphere. Yet this was the history of resistance. So while BC Gupta's literary and geological work is published, his personal political history is not. Is there any other way of authenticating the interviews? Much history will be lost to memory if we depend only on these time-honoured historiography methods. Can you suggest a way out? Oral interviews do form the basis of much history. Could I give more details in the reference maybe the date and place of interview. Though I realise since Wiki is a collective effort, and so largely anonymous, there is little accountability in that too. Sipram (talk) 05:29, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Those are good questions, and I'm sorry I don't have good answers.

If the interviews have been transcribed, and you have (or could get) the copyrights to them, you could, possibly, submit them to Wikisource. (https://en.wikisource.org/) I'm not personally familiar with the project, but it may be useful. If that is not an option, you may want to look at Wikipedia:Alternative outlets. You may also want to look into https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ if you speak Bengali. All Wikipedia sites value verifiability, but it might be worth checking there if you haven't already.

If the interviews have not been published, the are not considered reliable sources. Oral interviews are important, but Wikipedia isn't an oral medium. It's helpful to remember that Wikipedia is not itself a reliable source. Wikipedia is designed to summarise information from other sources, and not be the origin of such info. This is why Wikipedia articles should not be used as sources in other Wikipedia articles. Without a reliable outside source it's impossible to know if the info has been vandalized, or if there has been an error in transcribing, or similar problems. Without sources, Wikipedia's problems become much, much worse. I hope that's helpful. Good luck. Grayfell (talk) 08:08, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]