User talk:Ranting Martian

Welcome!

Hello Ranting Martian, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! ➨ ❝R E DVERS❞ 12:55, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I saw your note about the "3 edit rule". We don't have one! We have a rule about not reverting (ie cancelling out) other people's edits 3 times in any 24 hours in one article (see WP:3RR) but that doesn't apply to creating or editing articles normally.

You must feel free to make as many edits you see fit to make when creating an article (though don't forget the Preview button - very useful if you're not sure how something will look).

If you need any editing advice or have any questions, drop me a line on my talk page and I'll be delighted to help! ➨ ❝R E DVERS❞ 12:55, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No 3rd edit rule

Hi again!

I don't know if you saw what I wrote above, but to repeat: there is no rule against editing an article three times! You can edit any article as many times as you want. The rule you're thinking of - WP:3RR - refers only to reverting edits by other people.

Please don't stop editing your article because you've edited it three or more times - you're allowed to (in fact, we encourage people to!). Be bold in your editing and don't worry about the rules and guidelines.

Get in touch with me on my talk page if you would like any help. ➨ ❝R E DVERS❞ 13:18, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Brighton Secondary College

Thanks for your note - it was in the perfect place. You just need to remember to sign your entries on talk pages with four tildes "~~~~".

I don't know if you know, but all edits to articles are recorded and even anonymous entries leave a footprint of their IP address. Therefore we can spot alterations made by sockpuppets and meatpuppets.

To address the points you and the anons made: this is an encyclopedia, so entries must be encyclopedic. That means somethings are essential to include... but other things are essential to exclude.

To address the points one by one:

(mainly in that it is not a private female-only school) This is a Point of View. We have a policy on not displaying points of view on our pages. If you can provide citations that compare your school with similar schools that prove this point, then it can stand. Otherwise, it has to go.

Typically well connected, socially, POV again.

but was prevented when the Student Issues Captain felt that was her job (she subsequently did nothing) Not only POV but a personal attack on someone and therefore libellous. It has to go.

though none have ever done much with it. POV again.

while often never having competed themselves (and not for lack of trying) POV again and unencyclopedic.

The best debating captain on record was 2004's Nick Kashin, who not only took control of debating team members and specific meetings, but took it upon himself to further assist each team with his unparalleled speech writing skills AND co-ordinated a debating night when the DAV chose BSC for one of its debating finals locations. Said debating captain rather insists on the inclusion of this part and others that were reinserted - and do you really want to argue with him? Come on! POV, unencyclopedic and arguing with fellow editors in the middle of an article. Please!

Other self-appointed captains (such as "Captain of kicking your ass" and "Captain ya' mum") have not been included due to their lack of permanance, official recognition and overall importance. Then exclude them. Don't include them and say you're excluding them. They're not encyclopedic, anyway.

Hope this all helps. Please don't add the stuff (or get your friends to add the stuff) back in, as the ultimate result could be the deletion of the article and neither of us want that to happen!

If you've got any more questions or I can be of any more help, drop me a line again on my talk page! Cheers ➨ ❝R E DVERS❞ 13:29, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re Juggernaut (xmen)

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Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Ranting Martian! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 338 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Mehmet Aydın - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 20:11, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]