Speedy deletion nomination of Amit Phadke

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A tag has been placed on Amit Phadke, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

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Amithphadke, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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Hi Amithphadke! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia.
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16:03, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not for writing about yourself

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Welcome to Wikipedia, but it is not a place like Facebook or LinkedIn for people to write about themselves or post their CVs. It is a quite different sort of site, a project to build an encyclopedia, so it is selective about subjects for articles, and writing about oneself is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU and Wikipedia:Autobiography.

Wikipedia user pages are not like those at social-networking sites. Their use is explained at WP:NOTWEBHOST:

"Wikipedians have their own user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia. Limited biographical information is allowed, but user pages should not function as personal webpages or be repositories for large amounts of material that is irrelevant to collaborating on Wikipedia. If you are looking to make a personal webpage or blog or to post your résumé, please make use of one of the many free providers on the Internet or any hosting included with your Internet account."

You can find out more about Wikipedia at the WP:Welcome page and the WP:Introduction. JohnCD (talk) 19:49, 1 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

Reply to your questions on my talk page

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Encyclopedia articles about celebrities or important people are here because contributors to the encyclopedia thought they were of enough general interest to have an article. There is a test for inclusion called Wikipedia:Notability which looks for references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Those references provide material on which to base an article - the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy requires that articles are based on reliable, published sources. The articles are not written by the subjects themselves - that is strongly discouraged. If you click on "View history" at the top of a page, you will usually see that it is the result of contributions from many users.

User pages (starting with "User:") are not encyclopedia articles, but they are not places for people to tell the world about themselves, as on social-networking sites. They are intended for contributors to the encyclopedia to say something about themselves, if they choose, in the context of their Wikipedia work, to help communication within the project.

As for how you can contribute, your contributions will be very welcome and there are many ways. Read the WP:Welcome page, the WP:Introduction and WP:Contributing to Wikipedia.

Here are some other pages that you may find helpful:

On talk pages (but not in articles) it helps to know who said what if you end each contribution by "signing" it with a group of four "tilde" characters ~~~~ which the system will turn into a "signature" of your username and the time and date, like this: JohnCD (talk) 12:09, 2 September 2016 (UTC)Reply