Talk:Robert Rankin

message: This page contains SEVERAL items which violate the Original Research policy. Specifically, the nutshell version is Articles may not contain any unpublished arguments, ideas, data, or theories; or any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published arguments, ideas, data, or theories that serves to advance a position.
The section listing the recurring characters and running gags is only verifiable by reading 2 or more books and drawing the conclusion yourself. If this is going to meet Wikipedia quality standards for original research, we need to have citations, even from a "companion" book or a fan site, or just remove it all together.Slavlin 22:09, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be a shame to lose that section.  I've added a few citations (off everything2.com) - that site seems to be wiki-like, in that users can register and add articles, but it doesn't appear to be a Wikipedia mirror, or get its information from Wikipedia.  It's a start, and hopefully other contributors to this article can find more. Carre 16:37, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
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message: Removed the line "In more recent times, these have been replaced with photographs of Rankin in various guises such as Anton Lavey (see top of this article." from the running gags section.
The picture in question, despite any passing resemblance, is not of Rankin in the guise of Anton LaVey, but of the attire he wore to conduct a Pagan wedding (handfasting). Also I can find no other evidence of the described phenomena, other than perhaps an old Bio picture paying homage to a similar photo of Aleister Crowley, but his was not a replacement for a fictitious biography. Timmeh666 12:08, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Various guises

message: Does anyone feel like including a section about the scultures on the cover art of his books? I feel it may be worthy of a section in it's own right if someone knows enough about them to write something decent. Big in albania 16:18, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cover artwork

message: I would dispute that Rune is an evil Moriarty-like character; he is certainly based on the life of Aleister Crowley and, in fact, while clearly being higly disreputable gentleman of loose morals, is generally a force for good.
Anyone any further thoughts? Timmeh666 11:03, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rune as Moriarty? No!

message: I have removed Neville from the recurring characters list on the grounds that all the Brentford trilogy characters, Neville included, were moved to that article's page some time ago. Big in albania 11:58, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Recurring characters

message: I've started an article on The Antipope - it's currently in my user space (User:Carre/The Antipope), but I'll move it into main space eventually.  In the meantime, if anyone wants to contribute or comment on it, please feel free. Carre 13:33, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is now in main space, not user space;  hopefully, the wikilink off the main article will work.  Still a bit to do on it - plot details would be nice, for a start!  Carre 15:07, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
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message: i met him with my dad at brighton 185.73.184.68 (talk) 10:34, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
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