Talk:Grand Order of Water Rats

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I'd support removing those paragraphs completely. There's no reason to include some but not others - presumably they were included simply because some editor somewhere had heard of them, rather than them having any special degree of noteworthiness. Including the full list would be lengthy, and I suspect would incorporate some

No response, so I'm deleting those paragraphs. Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:41, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. In today's j'accuse I'm also concerned that User:Howard352 is Robert_J._Sherman (see photo credit for that entry 'self' as that user) who has spattered self-serving content over hundreds of pages for nearly 15 years. Little grape (talk) 15:27, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure you're right. Their entry on Discogs seems a little thin, shall we say, to justify a massively over-written bio here. I don't intend doing anything about it though - life's too short to care! Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:08, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I can put up with it if people just want their own page they can show to their mums, because no-one's going to look for it or accidentally come across it. But the problem comes when they insert themselves into other pages, with hundreds of links back to their vanity page. In this particular case they've added themselves to a list of 'well-known' celebs, which of course slants it and makes the whole list unreliable - so we're forced to remove an otherwise informative and interesting list. And he appears to have put himself into dozens of other pages, and created lots of pages for unremarkable theatre productions and songs written by him. THAT'S what grinds my gears... Little grape (talk) 17:06, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I do agree - it's irritating. If you want to go through them all, or raise the issue with admins somewhere, I'll back you up - but I don't care enough to go through it all myself... (sorry!). Probably best to start off any discussion at the Robert J. Sherman talk page, rather than here, I would think. Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:28, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]