Talk:Biplab Kumar Deb

Protection

Continuous vandalism is going on in this page since this article relates to a political person and his recent comments on indian mythology and science. Without any reference unknown or unidentified editors add and omit statements. Can it be semi protected? Pinakpani (talk) 07:11, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

@Pinakpani:, the correct place to request protection is - this page.. However, I have got this page protected now and also fixed the birth place vandalism.. --Adamstraw99 (talk) 10:47, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

I agree with you Pinakpani. an unidentified editor provided a citation at the controversy section regarding a speech of the former CM Biplab Deb's duck rearing speech which sounded a bit peculiar for many because they were unaware of it. The scientists later clarified that "this statement is correct" & Therefore, I believe this statement of B.D cannot be labeled as controversial. After all it is not even a controversy. ChongPong (talk) 21:15, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Birth place

These two sources say he was born in Tripura, India , .. It is true that his ancestors migrated from Bangladesh but that happened before his birth...please do not change the birth place unless shown otherwise in other reliable sources, also don't make changes before discussing talk page.. thank you. --Adamstraw99 (talk) 07:02, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Born into a middle class Bengali family at Rajdhar Nagar village in Tripura's Gomati district on November 25, 1971,

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/biplab-kumar-deb-rss-member-to-tripura-cm/articleshow/63231111.cms

Mr Deb was born on November 25, 1969 in a middle class family in Tripura's Gomati district, in a village called Rajdhar Nagar.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/biplab-kumar-deb-48-year-old-leader-trained-by-rss-to-be-tripura-chief-minister-sources-1819814

Born in a small village of Gomati District, Deb left the state for Delhi when he was 24 years old.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bjp-leader-biplab-deb-will-be-new-tripura-cm-jishnu-dev-varma-his-deputy/story-h0AzOQH581uv1699O5MCeL.html

Born in a middle class family at Rajdhar Nagar village in Gomati district on November 25, 1971, Biplab Deb completed his graduation from Udaipur College in the state in 1999.

https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/meet-biplab-deb-the-cm-frontrunner-in-tripura/1265205

Marriage Status

Shri Biplab Kumar Deb is now separated from his wife as of January 2025

source: https://tripurainfo.com/EnglishNews.aspx?intnid=490&title=Emotional-Statement-of--Biplab-Deb’s-Wife-Announces-End-of-24-Year-Marriage Wastedinwhite (talk) 06:25, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

@Wastedinwhite: tripurainfo.com is not a reliable source, see WP:RS. I came across these reliable sources per which Biplab Kumar Deb's wife has revealed that the former wants a divorce. The sources do not mention that they have officially filed for a divorce or are separated. Hence should be avoided mention of divorce/separation in the article per WP:BLPPRIVACY. Also, whatever be the case, the name of the wife stays in the infobox (with a sourced ending date if proven). - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 12:34, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

@Hummer9713: Seek WP:CONSENSUS here. Thanks. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 10:40, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Further discussion October 2025

The article was updated in 2 October 2025 after this discussion and the status of marriage was changed to "separated" in accordance to the available WP:RS (reliable sources). Copied here:

Full discussion

HI, it is regarding this article. Today another (relatively new) user with EC rights showed up, and tried doing the same . It is OR, since according to the source, the subject wants a divorce, not that they are divorced. Don't know why why all this drama in a Wikipedia article Facepalm . - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 20:34, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

The BO77!, what are you doing there? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 09:01, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

The BO77! has continued editing without responding. Well, and without editing the article again. I guess this can be archived. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:31, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

@ToBeFree, They got divorced multiple news sources are supporting this statement and I think we need to take some time for better source.🌟 𝒯𝐻𝐸 𝐵𝒪𝒮𝒮! 19:34, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi The BO77!, I guess a single reliable source would already have been sufficient. If there is none, what makes you so sure? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:40, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

@ToBeFree, In this articles you can find the original post shared by his wife on facebook., and 🌟 𝒯𝐻𝐸 𝐵𝒪𝒮𝒮! 08:23, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Well, at least the infobox parameter shouldn't list a spouse if the accuracy of that statement has been challenged in good faith and it lacks recent reliable citations, so I have removed it for now. The rest of the marriage-related content doesn't seem to (potentially incorrectly) state that the marriage still exists, so that should be fine.

Adding content requires good sources and I'm not sure if these are. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 09:24, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

• The original post by the subject's wife says nothing about the divorce. It is only in these unreliable sources that we see a WP:OR version of a supposed 'divorce'. These two sources (unavailable) are unreliable (and had been used by other IPs and COI users before). Only this one mentions that they are 'separated', though I'm not sure of its reliability, since the screenshot of the wife's post doesn't mention a 'separation' explicitly let alone a 'divorce', not to mention these posts are unavailable (hushed up).
• Note that there was a divorce rumor in 2019 that was covered in reliable sources, and that time it was the wife supposedly 'filing a divorce' against Biplab Deb, a claim posted by someone named Anupam Paul in Facebook, which was rubbished by both Biplab Deb and his wife Niti , and a police case was also filed against that offender .
• Third, I'm not sure why the spouse parameter has to be removed when the subject's marriage to that woman (Niti Deb) isn't contentious but a fact, not only confirmed by these flimsy unreliable sources presented by these by the army of COI/Sock/Meat editors but also by many reliable sources over the years (two RS above), including the Government of Tripura source here and verified handles of the subjects (the ). Also values like 'separated', 'divorced', 'died' are available to be used with the |reason= parameter in the 'marriage' template. Removing the wife's name seems like the she never existed, something which these COI/Sock/Meat users and IPs were doing since the beginning. These reliable sources mention that the subject wants a divorce and the wife's social media quote (unavailable) seems to allude to it. So what I'd like to suggest for now as a "better compromise" (for lack of explicit sources) is use the 'separated' value as the reason in IB unless we have official confirmation of divorce, and expansion based on it.

- Fylindfotberserk (talk) 12:17, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm fine with anything that doesn't imply the marriage still exists unless there are recent reliable sources for this. This is a common and embarrassing issue with Wikipedia biographies of living people who have recently divorced, see also https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64033028 for a case where this absurdity went through the news. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 12:45, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

I did the needful changes. Myself came across quite a few such cases——divorces, birth-dates, birthplaces, birth-names, citizenship, profile-pics and the likes, where the ill-informed subjects of the articles chose to bash Wikipedia (they should understand that these articles belong to Wikipedia where Wiki rules apply). What they could have done was simply correct it through third-part sources or interviews (for the non-SPS stuff). Some did, actually, after reading my suggestions in the talk pages and elsewhere. Then there are some who would go to otrs. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 15:30, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

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