Talk:Matt Harding

message: Why would anyone want to delete this page? I found it midly interesting, as a link from the "Internet Phenomenon" page. Leave it as it is, stop being so delete-happy.
:I do agree with your point. --onWheeZierPLot 10:18, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please don't delete it. I wanted to check information about Matt's jumping, in this case, I was interested when did he do his first jumping video? This page doesn't give the answer! This is not good! Scooter (German band) has a CD Jumping around the World, which does seem to resemble Matt's idea bit. I wondered which was earlier? 78.131.24.250 (talk) 18:18, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion? 

message: Now that the article has been rewritten, I'm OK with it.
:It's not the way the text is written - it's the fact that there are six billion people living on Earth, and Wikipedia's mission statement is not to do a biography on all of them.  This one, in particular, does not seem noteworthy.
::There are only six billion people living on earth now? OMG! What happened to the other billion? Did they all suddenly leave the planet? I want to know where they went. What did they know that we don't?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.155.159.135 (talk) 09:37, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  OK 

message: I think the random quotes needs some kind of context, otherwise they just seem a bit offensive, esp. Jesus killing a kitten. --Johann Schlinker 11:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Quotes

message: So does every living human belong on Wikipedia, or only those from Connecticut?  Is it the fact that the man has travelled that makes this individual worthy of an encyclopedia article and bio, with poorly written quotes?  I think I'll make my own vanity article, if that's the case.  DigitalEnthusiast 23:08, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What makes this man "worthy of an encyclopedia article" is the claim that "his video ranks as one of the most downloaded (and watched) in internet history."  What would do better at establishing that this man is worthy of an encyclopedia article would be if we had a source for the claim that his video is one of the most downloaded in internet history.  If you take a look at the previous deletion discussions, you'll see that this is a borderline case, a lot of people don't think he is "worthy of an encyclopedia article", but enough do and have a strong enough claim to override them - barely.  However, the fact that those fans have not backed up their claims with reliable sources is an indication that they may be wrong.  If you really feel strongly about it, then take it for a 4th AFD by putting  at the top and then following the directions that appear.  However, the tag you put at the top,  is not supposed to be used for controversial deletions where the article has "an assertion of notability".  ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs) 15:00, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Matt is famous! I saw him on the today show. Everyone knows his website. Who are you kidding? Of course there should be a page on him. I just wish I had a good public domain photo to add. futurebird 05:41, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed futurebird. Of course there should be a page about this person. To say otherwise is an argument from personal incredulity.  Just because you struggle to believe that dancing in a video your friend made could make you notable enough to merit an encyclopedia article, this does not mean that this is not the case for Matt Harding. So the onus is on you guys to explain why anyone who has had the media exposure that Matt Harding has had should not have an article.  Gantlord 22:00, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: What makes it worthy of inclusion is the fact that a man traveled the world to create beautiful art, art that influenced the creation of further beautiful art. Is it worthy of inclusion? I submit that it is more worthy than the inclusion of (for example) Stevens T. Mason. While there is no question as "Boy Governor" of Michigan that Mason was important to some of the people of his time and place. His relevance to the modern world is almost non-existant. On the other hand, Matt Harding has touched thousands or millions of people. While he received news coverage and ample coverage in blogs and other media, it is probably unlikely his memory will last beyond this turbulent age. The tide of information is rising like a storm and much that is unquestionably notable will probably vanish without a trace as well.
Should either article be deleted? Is Wikipedia running short on space? If it offends you, do not be surprised. In Wikipedia there are entries enough to offend us all.
aka andrew mcfarlane - farlane.wordpress.com 13:43, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worthiness 

message: is there a way to settle the deletion issue for this article? some major changes have happened since the last nominations including mention of this story in major newspapers.Sourcesleuth 11:12, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  retry the deletion issue 

message: Please do not remove proper citations to reliable sources (as Matt San did here) and replace them with original research, i.e. the latest numbers on YouTube, simply to provide "the latest numbers". This degrades the verifiability of articles and may cause them to be nominated for deletion. Also, try to space out citations so that they don't all support the lead sentence and have a bunch of other unsupported sentences elsewhere -- it just looks sloppy. --Dhartung | Talk 22:42, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I totaly agree with you on this. I've archived the page on the date the numbers was collected. Then its possible to check the page in webcitation on the given date. Nsaa (talk) 20:21, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating YouTube numbers 

message: no reference for death information?  Vm0d (talk) 09:13, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wrong Matt Harding. [UK Accident verdicts on Harding crash] Jeffrywith1e (talk) 05:05, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  death 

message: The use of the flags seems to be random. Somtimes it is the flag of the country, sometimes the flag of the state, sometimes the flag of the city. Shouldn't always the flag of he country be used? --Angua (talk) 01:31, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I second that question! Doesn't make sense. Saebhiar Adishatz 04:01, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

text: Agreed. Let's keep some consistency. 69.172.101.13 (talk) 23:18, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flags 

message: I wonder if Matt got an official permission to use "Sweet Lullaby" for his video, or does Youtube agree with license violations? --Plenz (talk) 15:48, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sweet lullaby 

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