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A tag has been placed on Matt fiddes, 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 an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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I am so sorry but I do not understand what I have done wrong here. Could you please help me? Then I can make the changes. Evian987 (talk) 16:07, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Non-admins are not able to view deleted pages; any help you get at this stage will likely need to come from an admin, so please read through the links already provided and consider changing your request template to ((admin help)) or post at Wikipedia:Deletion review. Dru of Id (talk) 17:03, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have already replied below. JohnCD (talk) 17:06, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Matt fiddes with this edit. When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Nathan2055^talk 16:34, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for letting me know. After reading through the criteria for a speedy deletion I have made what I think are the necessary alterations. Could you please confirm this asap so the page at the top can be cleared. Thank you. Evian987 (talk) 16:38, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have deleted it. The whole article was promotional in tone, clearly written with the aim of boosting the subject, name-dropping to emphasise his celebrity friends, and promote his brand. Wikipedia is not for advertising or promotion of any kind, and is extremely resistant to attempts to use it in that way.

"a fun and enjoyable programme... With exceptional instructors, this programme has been incredibly successful... A unique feature of this course... a relaxed, female only environment... one of the leading suppliers of high standard/low cost accommodation..." - that is an advertisement, not an encyclopedia article, which requires a neutral point of view. See WP:PEACOCK about promotional language. An encyclopedia article should be neutral in tone, no opinions or glowing adjectives, just facts referenced to reliable sources.

References are no use unless they actually confirm the claims made: I have not checked many but, for example:

• The statement "Jackson would come to Fiddes’ martial arts session in disguise and he would incorporate bits and pieces into his future dance routines" is referenced to a piece about Chinese schools using Jackson dance moves instead of Tai Chi - no mention of Fiddes or of Jackson putting martial arts moves into his routine.

• the article says "For the past 15 years, Matt has had a strong friendship with Uri Geller... Fiddes considers Geller not simply as a friend and close adviser, but also as a second father." The references supplied for that statement were Geller's website, which as far as I can see does not mention Fiddes, and MFTR which (a) says only "Uri Geller and Matt Fiddes have been close friends for over 8 years", not 15, and (b) as Fiddes' own site cannot be regarded as a reliable source for this claim. If you are going to make capital out of a relationship with Geller, you need something from Geller, or at least independent of Fiddes, as a source.

Fiddes is probably notable enough for an article, but it needs to be written in a much more neutral way, with less name-dropping, and giving only facts that can be confirmed from reliable sources. His own website and ones associated with him need to be used with care - important claims need independent confirmation.

If you like, I can "userfy" the article - move it into your user space for you to work on - but you might do better to start from a clean sheet. See Help:Userspace draft for how to make one.

JohnCD (talk) 16:56, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for this and all your advice. I will re-start and write it in a much more neutral way. Evian987 (talk) 16:16, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for uploading File:Matt at Headley Court.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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Thanks for uploading File:Matt Fiddes Martial Arts.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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Thanks for uploading File:Matt Fiddes Profile.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
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Hello. I've reverted two of your edits to Matt Fiddes, for opposite reasons. In this edit, you added potentially controversial information about two living persons without a reference. Please note that in WP:Biographies of living persons it's extremely important to add only information that's WP:Verifiable from WP:Reliable sources, and I can't find any sources online to support who he's dating at the moment. Then in this edit, you removed referenced content, with your edit summary saying only "Removed legal action - incorrect information". We need to know what's incorrect about it before you remove it: have you got references showing that those newspapers got it wrong? If not, then please don't remove it. Thanks, Scopecreep (talk) 18:56, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Evian987. You have new messages at Stefan2's talk page.
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Stefan2 (talk) 12:29, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]