User talk:Glennh70

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Glennh70, 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! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! --Syrthiss 14:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

thanks, I was finding the signing a bit tricky! Glennh70 15:57, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Hehehe, I did too when I started out. Cheers! --Syrthiss 16:00, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Glennh70. Welcome. I am the person who commented on your contribution to the St Helens population figures. I am from St Helens and am pleased to welcome you to wikipedia. I am less skilled in using this site than you but i try hard. Best wihses for the New Year Placid

Hi where abouts are you from? Happy New Year to everyone! Glennh70 23:02, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dispute?

Hi Glennh70. You hit me with a question just as I was archiving my talk page so lets just discuss it here, ok?

Now, what do you want to know about resolving disputes? --Syrthiss 15:48, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

I thought that Judge Dredd was the most famous British superhero and another writer on the superheroes page deleted my sentence saying that he didn't qualify. This seems rather subjective to suggest that he doesn't even merit a mention. Who do I ask? Glennh70 15:52, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Well, it does sound kind of subjective either way. :) If you feel strongly about that being included, I would ask about it on Talk:Superhero. You can convince people usually if you have a source for what you are trying to add (ie a BBC article showing results of a poll with Judge Dredd as the most famous), but if its just something you "feel" then its inclusion is questionable. Hope that helps. --Syrthiss 16:00, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
you're right it is very subjective either way. It seems odd to read an encylopediac reference that a character is the most famous British superhero when I've never heard of him after 33 years of British comic books! I'll keep looking for a good source, thanks for the advice.
Hiya - Dredd and Dare are unquestionably the most famous British comic book characters, but neither of them are superheroes. They don't have special powers etc (see the definition on the Superheroes page). You could make a case for Dare as a hero (though not a superhero), but Dredd is just a policeman doing his job, however outlandish the world he's in.
If you want to argue that Dredd and Dare are superheroes then to start with I'd ask you to give me a working definition of superhero that includes them but allows for ordinary heros in sci-fi comics (i.e. so not every sci-fi protagonist is classified as a superhero).
Hope this helps. Vizjim 16:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
PS: Oh, by the way, the normal practice would be to try resolving the dispute by talking to the person you disagree with first. I hope that my reply above has clarified why I deleted your contribution: if not, do please continue the discussion. It's not intended as a hostile act, so don't worry!

[edit] Thanks for the response..

it certainly wasn't taken as a hostile act, I was just checking my options. You make good points regarding the definiton of superheroes but Batman doesn't have many more powers. I wonder if we can find a way to mention Dredd and Dare without implying to uninformed readers that Marvelman is the peak of British comic book creativity? Glennh70 16:37, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

The usual take is that Batman and a few others like him qualify as a superheroes because they are Gadgeteers with a strong driving moral sense. Dredd and Dare, as simply extraordinary (but not extraordinarily able) humans doing their normal job really, really well, don't count. Dredd has a huge presence [1] on wikipedia anyway, as does Dare [2], so I'm not worried about them being mentioned on a page that isn't about them or their genre. Vizjim 16:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Queen Mary students and alumni

Would you like to join Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Queen Mary, University of London? Timrollpickering 21:03, 19 September 2006 (UTC)