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Speedy deletion nomination of Stephen Mann FRS


A tag has been placed on Stephen Mann FRS, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which articles 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:
 * It 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 encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.
 * It appears to be a clear copyright infringement of http://www.stephenmann.co.uk/cv/. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. However, even if you use one of these processes to release copyrighted material to Wikipedia, it still needs to comply with the other policies and guidelines to be eligible for inclusion. If you would like any assistance with this, you can ask a question at the help desk.

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Hi, thanks for message. You can sign your comments automatically using four tildes ~. So many problems. I deleted your article because
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. It is now Wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references, as defined in the link, or they will be deleted. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to him, 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 he or his associated sites claim. The first two paragraphs had references, but they were to his own university's sites, his own book and a search of his own publications, nothing independent third-party at all. The rest of the text was completely unsourced.
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: numerous journals... presented over 125 invited and plenary talks... numerous awards and fellowships... Can there be life outside biology? Since 2011 we have been investigating
 * the article was a copyright violation of this and this. 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 or Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Licensed, allowing free modification, copying and distribution for all purposes including commercial. 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.
 * You say that the text is creative commons licensed, but there is no indication of that. Furthermore, many CC licences do not permit commercial use. Either way, we can't accept text if it isn't clear that it meets our free for all purposes requirements.
 * it was taken by our lab members and released under creative commons on our research website: stephenmann.co.uk. You have a conflict of interest when editing this article, and you must declare it. See also Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest. Note also that editing on behalf of an organisation rather than as an individual is not permitted

The tone and referencing could have been fixed, and he is clearly notable, but the copyright violation is not acceptable. Note that if you want to write a draft, use Draft:Stephen Mann (academic) (not FRS, no honorifics, awards etc are allowed in names, see, for instance Albert Einstein Jimfbleak - talk to me?  14:30, 25 May 2016 (UTC)