Deletion of Ritwik Thakur

Comment: I'm sorry, Ritman, I know your father is an important person to you, and you have written this article with love and respect. But Wikipedia is an international encyclopedia and it has criteria for what should be included here. The main criterion is |the general notability guideline which states that the subject has been WRITTEN ABOUT by |independent reliable sources. There are no such sources in this article. There is one external link, but it is not to a reliable source - just somebody's blog - and it does not even mention your father that I could find. He has won a poetry prize, but not a notable prize as defined by Wikipedia. There are pictures of certificates and things but they do not prove his notability. If you can find some independent reliable sources (things like newspaper articles, scholarly reviews of his poetry, etc. - and they don't have to be in English) then we can consider including him. But right now this article almost qualifies for speedy deletion as an unreferenced biography of a living person. Regarding the nominator's comment above, I could find no mention of him being an Indian civil servant - just a poet
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:42)