Talk:Brett Ratner

message: "He was also linked to young actress, Lindsay Lohan."
First, a punctuation point: s.b. no comma after "actress". 
Second, what does "linked to" mean that makes it different from "dated" as in the previous sentence?  Third, there's no citation. 
And fourth, does anyone besides me doubt the encyclopedic value of who he, or anyone, dates? -- Tenebrae 02:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vague sentence

message: None of these seem to have any importance to the details of his life. It might as well be a trivia section, in which case it is against the wikipedia rules. L.cash.m (talk) 07:23, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Screen Appearances

message: Brett Ratner lost his virginity to a parapalegic who was hanging from a tree.  It's actually true, would be interesting to add a bit to the article about it.  Here's a reference:  75.127.214.162 (talk) 19:41, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Losing Virginity 

message: Has he done any pornography? 180.180.162.52 (talk) 09:43, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: question

message: Where did the controversies section go? He has made headlines a lot doing dumb things.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.153.215.39 (talk) 22:28, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy 

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message: The section should be removed, which I will do with reference to similar issues noted here first, then here, and  and once again, here. In those very similar edits, the users were new editors who apparently were unfamiliar with the guidelines explained. --Light show (talk) 17:00, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sexual allegations section 

message: Underrated or overrated, this article doesn't discuss it. The career part of this article is so neutral it is like water, pH 7. It feels like there's a lot missing. 
What defines the directing style of Brett Ratner? Does have any recurring motifs? I think it is fair to say he has been commercially successful but not well liked critically, but the article doesn't address any of that. 
In 2017 Peter Bogdonavich said Ratner was underrated, which got me thinking. Has his commercial success caused him to be underrated as a director or is it an unrelated separate thing? Maybe that and more could be included in the article, but at the moment the article tries so hard to be neutral that instead of striking a balance between different opinions it says almost nothing at all. -- 109.79.176.69 (talk) 15:12, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Underrated? 

message: I reduced "Ratner at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival" to "Ratner in 2012", with the edit summary "caption trimmed, see MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE". FMSky reverted this with the edit summary "Doesnt mention captions at all". MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE states "The less information it contains, the more effectively it serves that purpose, allowing readers to identify key facts at a glance." There are many film festivals, and they are our main source of film/television people images. Including the actual event adds nothing of value, and is simply infobox clutter, and contrary to the MOS. I have removed such extraneous detail from numerous other infoboxes - any good reason why this one should be an exception? Edwardx (talk)
:him having appeared at notable film festivals isnt completely irrelevant --FMSky (talk) 11:33, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I imagine Ratner has appeared at just about every major English language film festival, and I suspect our readers will be aware of such things. It is not relevant content for an infobox where brevity is required. Any policy based objections for my changing the caption to "Ratner in 2012"? Edwardx (talk) 11:40, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: In the absence of any policy based objection, I will revert it back to "Ratner in 2012". Edwardx (talk) 22:54, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox image caption

message: He hadn’t done any film and TV work after the sexual allegations came out and his last credit is in 2019 so I do not understand why his years active section didn’t go “1987-2019” and obviously I highly doubt he would be returning to film and TV work even if he moved to another country. His career is already over eons ago. RayKVega (talk) 22:51, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: We need a source saying he's retired in order to make such a claim. The fact that he's had no releases to his credit doesn't necessarily mean he hasn't been working on anything. We can only report what secondary sources tell us. Grandpallama (talk) 23:45, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ratner’s current carrer status