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Happy editing! I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 21:17, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

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Your text was a single massive paragraph with no wikilinks (not even She's Like the Wind, Patrick Swayze or Dirty Dancing), no formatting, headings embedded in the text and mostly unsuitable bare url refs, yet perfect spelling. Note that we do not accept AI-written submissions.

You seem to know a great deal about his thoughts. If you have a conflict of interest, you must declare it; please don't write about yourself, your friends or relatives and read the guidance below:

Also read the guidance below:
 * When you write about a person, you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that they meet the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the person or an associated organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the person claims or interviewing them. Note that references should be in-line, so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls.


 * Your bare urls references were nearly all unsuitable, including IMDB, YouTube, his own sites, and pages that were written by him or were interviews with him


 * The idea is that references confirm what you have written. But, for example, your supposed ref for His career in music began in 1971 in Long Island, New York, where he performed in various clubs as a pianist. In addition to his successful career in music, Widelitz is also a respected street photographer, displaying his work in various exhibits is just some of his paintings, which confirms nothing of the text except that the paintings exist


 * You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.


 * The text is written in an promotional tone  acclaimed... recognized for... best known... his successful career in music... also a respected street photographer... he later discovered his true talent... etc.


 * There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
 * You must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.


 * Again, an unformatted unlinked text dump doesn't inspire confidence

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. If you are writing about yourself, or someone you know as a friend, colleague, client, employer or relative, you have a conflict of interest, and you must disclose the nature of that COI. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 08:00, 23 June 2023 (UTC)