User:Smartse/notes3
Creations
- FG Hemisphere (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) investment management firm this is not a 'POV' see e.g.
- DCKAP (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) ecommerce - relies extremely heavily on company website
- QuietStream Financial (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) "real-estate investment advisory" heavily reliant on primary sources. Dubious notability.
- CrowdRabbit (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) "crowdfunding search engine" subsidiary of QuietStream Financial - same problems. Quote in lead fails V from source cited, but comes from the company's press release.
- Iain Scobbie (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - Early life and education largely fails verification. source cited at time of writing
- Seward & Kissel (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Lawfirm "Noted for its “substantial hedge-fund practice,” it has been described as “the leading law firm to the [hedge fund] industry.” in lead citing to a press release! Some other promo removed by SPECIFICO
- Ligand Pharmaceuticals (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) "Therapies section" sourced to press release. Loeb invested in it (see below).
- Crowdnetic (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) GA review somehow fails to notice citations to corporate website and press releases.
- Tim Vipond (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Passed GA despite there only being a single source that's anything close to BIO: [1]. Needs AFDing.
- 3D Issue (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Products section almost entirely sourced to corporate website.
- Tim Clemente (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Unsourced DOB and college info. Dubious notability.
- Third Point Management (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - Hedgefund . Lead was extremely promotional until I removed it. Logo uploaded and updated in 2015 by a sock of Euclidthalis
- Karti Chidambaram (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) son of former Indian Finance minister embroiled in corruption scandal. failed verification for degrees from Texas and Cambridge (I have checked) - info present in 2nd edit
- Nouveau marché (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) French equity market
- Jay Obernolte (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) California pol
- Job creation index (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Alison Weir (activist) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) founder of If Americans Knew & author of Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel
- Lee D. Baker (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) American academic
- Paula D. McClain (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) American academic
- Karla F.C. Holloway (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) American academic
- Grant Farred (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) American/South African academic
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Edits
- Top articles
- Betsy DeVos (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) two major rewrites: whole of 2013 rewrite e.g. adding PR fluff about philanthropy. Duly noted on the TP by User:SMcCandlish. 2016 rewrite highly reliant on philanthropyroundtable interview, the same that was heavily used in the 2013 edits. Copied straight off a CV. Note the implausibly short time between edits [2]. More recently, clear change in meaning to done down criticism in an NYT article.
- Paul Singer (businessman) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - top edited article. Note the involvement of Focusandlearn at that article. [3] [4]
- Daniel S. Loeb (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) founder and CE of Third Point Management above. What does "focused on event-driven, value-oriented investing" mean? Length Philanthropy section.
- Anthony_Pratt_(businessman) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) incorporating dislosed COI edits (see talk).
- Jim O'Neill (investor) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) addition of WP:FAKE reference. Article started twice by Vipul editors.