Talk:Mark Ratner

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"Mark lives with his wife, Nancy who also used to teach in Highland Park, Illinois . He has two kids, Stacey and Daniel, both of which are now grown up. Stacey is the creative director of driveitaway.com has spent a decade designing for clients including Open Books, The Nanotechnology Alliance, Sittercity, Driveitaway, Wired Business, Ionospeed, Snapdragon Technologies, The Automotive Fleet & Leasing Association, Brown University, Northwestern University, Dover Saddlery, Bits & Pieces, Harvard Translations, The MIT Press, The Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau, and The Conference On Computers, Freedom, & Privacy. A graduate of Brandeis University and Boston College Law School, she is delighted to be working with the creative artistes of OperaModa. Dan Ratner is an entrepreneur and is also associated with Mark's involvement in Nano sciences."

seems non-encyclopedic and possibly a copy-vio copy from somewhere. I have removed it to here for further consideration. The rest of the article still needs some cleanup, but I have made a start. --Bduke 06:24, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An anon editor changed the quote above (which is no longer in the article) to:-

"Mark lives with his wife Nancy. He has two kids, Stacy and Daniel. Stacy is the Founder and Executive Director of Open Books, Chicago's first nonprofit literacy bookstore. Daniel is the VP of Sittercity and the coauthor, with Mark, of two books on nanotechnology."

Perhaps s/he was trying to say that such a cut-back version could be reinstated in the article. I do not know. I am no fan of adding stuff about people's family. They have to be notable in their own right.

To the anon editor, please do not alter the edits of other editors on talk pages. Add your contribution below. --Bduke (talk) 02:19, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]