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J Costas Article-DUDE QUIT USIN INCORRECT INFORMATION FROM THE SHAREHOLDER REPORT>>THAT REPORT CLEARLY STATES IF YOU TOOK THE TIME TO READ IT THAT ONLY SUBPRIME WRITE DOWNS ARE ADDRESSED

I disagree with your reasoning. All my edit did was highlight that DRCM employees dispute the figure. Zaki's book outlines this as does your summary of what is out there. As a former DRCM employee I can state with 100% confidence that we dispute that figure. Also if you read the shareholder report it only outlines sub prime losses and does not include profitable strategies such as CRE which made over 200 mil in the first half of 2007!

Former DRCM Trader —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.29.77.60 (talk) 15:19, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for Unblocking

Thanks for removing the block. I would like to get your advice on how I should have handled the situation differently. As you can imagine it was a fairly frustrating interaction and I was not getting a lot of help when I reached out on the noticeboards. Then to get blocked after I flagged the issue on the incidents noticeboard was obviously not what I had expected. |► ϋrбanяeneωaℓ • TALK ◄| 14:31, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Sure. Sandstein and Phil were right - it was a bit harsh, but an EW is an EW. The real answer is to pursue WP:DR. The unofficial and more-or-less frowned upon answer is to ping an admin and ask for assistance, but many folks do that because it is often effective.

You're a solid contributor. Edit warring is the one thing that frequently trips up even our best. I'm sure if you look into my history before I became an admin, you could find a few that I was involved in myself. If you find yourself doing the same thing more than twice, you really need to stop and figure out another plan of action.

Let me know if I can be of assistance. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 15:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, it's a first for me. I guess my other question is tomorrow if the other editor goes back and removes the image what is the right way to proceed at that point? |► ϋrбanяeneωaℓ • TALK ◄| 15:19, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Bring it to the attention of one of the admins that commented on your block, me or go back to ANI stating that the edit war has continued. If you bring it to ANI, I would remove the {{resolved}} tag from the existing thread and move the thread down to the bottom adding your comment. Do not revert the edit to the article. I'm moving this entire thread here from my talk page as it would probably be more useful to anyone else looking at the problem if the EW continues. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 17:31, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm the other editor who was blocked. I was blocked for repeatedly removing this photo, which has not been established is in the public domain. My question: Should the photo remain on the page? The other editor describes me as a new editor. (July 2008. Does that make me new? Or necessarily in the wrong?) He says I was uncivil, but the thread of edits on these pages shows nothing uncivil. Persistent, yes. But my edits were made in good faith, and I accepted my block gracefully and without protest. But I'm not clear on this: What to do now about that photo? Why do we allow it to remain if, as editor PhilKnight says, "I haven't been able to establish when it was published." You may see why a (newer) editor would be confused why all this is being discussed in the context of "disruptive image removal" instead of "disruptive image posting"? I removed the photo because its copyright status is not clear; the experienced editor reposted it, saying it was probably OK. I removed it and asked for evidence; he removed it and said it was clearly OK. Yes, we both were guilty of edit warring. But what I don't understand is, while the photo's legal status is in dispute, why is it allowed to remain? Should we not err on the side of following the copyright law? The user Urbanrenewal does not have any evidence of a publication date for this photo -- he is guessing that it "must have been" published at a certain time, because it was taken then. When it was taken is not the test, right? Now, down to brass tacks: Is the proper course for me to take to mark this photo for deletion from Wikipedia? If so, how? I see the note above referring to WP:CSD#G12, but at that page I don't understand what exactly one should do. I'm afraid to remove the photo, because that would be edit warring. (Meanwhile, the editor who disagrees is free to re-post the photo?) Thank you for your suggestions.BlackberryHacks (talk) 05:35, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

I have listed the photo for deletion, though I'm unclear how to do the template properly.

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Hi. Thanks for your comment and for pointing out my typo.

My apologies if the citation was unclear, I was citing the SEC form 10-K, which I accessed via Wikinvest. The site provides easy access to navigable government financial filings with permanent web addresses. I find this makes searching for government filings both easier and less-error prone.

Regardless, thanks for pointing out my mistake; I've gone ahead and fixed the typo.

Financial Zorro (talk) 05:27, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

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Zhone

Hi - I see you have a version of an article about Zhone. Are you planning to work on it further? Would you mind if I took your material and used it for an article I'd like to creat? Jeff Song (talk) 23:39, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

• go for it. Good luck |► ϋrбanяeneωaℓ • TALK ◄| 03:32, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

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Sockpuppet accusation

Hi User:Urbanrenewal,

I joined the Private Equity Task-force to begin a similar history to yourself but concentrating on the ASEAN region and Cambodia in particular, given its increasing popularity and under appreciated status. Towards this end I made the Kith Meng and The Royal Group pages and sought to tidy up numerous others relating to the country's largest business groups, and in doing so I was lead to Leopard Capital, on which I then spent a considerable amount of time, tidying things up and imbuing a more neutral tone whilst removing dead links and/or links leading to the company's website, simultaneously verifying the claims of the entry (and, also removing claims that weren't verifiable). I thought, like helpful administrative User:Discospinster had done previously, I would if anything be thanked for my work? From the perspective of detailing commerce-centric Cambodian based networks, it's fairly practical to overview Cambodia's first and biggest private equity fund -- and no, I'm not connected to Leopard Capital: that is my point -- I'm sure you'd agree. That to claim otherwise (that is that it's not fair practice to overview Cambodia's first and biggest private equity fund, particularly given the country's small-sized population) would risk inhibiting the Wikipedia Project of Countering Systemic-Bias vis-a-vis the already lacklustre coverage of Cambodia's economy, and say be arguably comparable to not mentioning Wall Street when overviewing America's economy, seems reasonably obvious to your truly.

Indeed, Cambodia's business sector is already under-represented on Wikipedia, and I have recently listed it under the 'Expansion Needed' heading on the WikiProject Cambodia page.

After my amendments, subtractions and additions the Leopard Capital listing (I think) is pretty neutral in tone? Can someone please clarify how this is not the case, citing examples of what they consider more neutral? Since being accused I've checked numerous other Wikipedia's for big private equity firms and, if anything, Leopard Capital now seems more neutral and less self-interested than some of the bigger names in the private equity field covered by Wikipedia?

Please explain what's required by you to see things rectified?

I'm new to Wikipedia and don't want this accusation remaining on my account, as I intend to keep contributing and perhaps even moderate one day! I really enjoy the collaborative nature of contributing to Wikipedia.

Cheers (Petersgoldpan (talk) 05:44, 5 July 2011 (UTC))

SPI question

I'll start by saying the SPI isn't my strength, and I'm happy to leave the work to those that do know how to address these issues. I am slightly involved because I've been working with a new editor Petersgoldpan, so when s/he was notified about an SPI investigation, I received a note. I looked at the archived archived investigation, and it appears to be closed. Is it usual practice to notify editors that a case has been closed? If not, should it be? I also note that Petersgoldpan received a notice at their talk page, but I do not see the name on the list. My guess is that there was an intention to add the name, but the case was closed before the name could be added. However, while someone familiar with the usual practices may know what is going on, I do not. Can you enlighten me?--SPhilbrickT 11:42, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Petersgoldpan's Acceptance

Acceptance

Hi User:Urbanrenewal

Thanks for the good faith, I assure you I simply wish to contribute to the (impartial) promotion of Cambodia (I used to live there) by helping to fill in the gaps so to speak, with a particular view to what I consider its increasingly noteworthy yet under-represented economy.

Following your accusation I intentionally refrained from adding new information to Leopard Capital's entry because, like I say, I want my account kept unblemished to maintain the one history so hopefully my work can be appreciated in future.

Though I do believe adding to Leopard Capital's entry is quite justified based on its aforementioned significance, I'm not fussed by contending myself with contributing towards this area in line with your suggestions: topics unrelated to (i) Leopard Capital, (ii) related personnel, and (iii) related investments and businesses. But I must for honesty's sake say, I do envisage myself addressing you in future about adding to various Wiki's relating to (i) (ii) and (iii). This isn't due any conflicting interests of mine, but mainly because Cambodia's principal influential drivers of growth are still rather small in number relative to the population size, who's per capita GDP according to the government's 2010 estimates, remember, is USD$783. Therefore, focusing on the nation's principal actors most enabling present and future growth can become slightly problematic, as we have seen...but such is the unavoidable nature of small yet complex "frontier markets" - everything must start from somewhere, after all.

• One question about your suggestions I need ask, however, is: Despite the topic of Cambodia's economy NOT being unrelated to (i), I suppose you're still in good faith allowing me to contribute to Wiki's directly to do with Cambodia's economy? Or am I misinterpreting you? Please, so I don't over step your suggestions User:Urbanrenewal, can you clarify my uncertainty about this (i) point.

Hopefully it will become clearer to you that I in fact have no conflict of interest. I'd appreciate the freedom to contribute like a normal user following an accumulated history of contributions demonstrating my sincere interest in this area as a whole.

Cheers

(Petersgoldpan (talk) 06:33, 6 July 2011 (UTC))

UrbanRenewal & Leopard Capital

User:Urbanrenewal User:Sphilbrick,

Please co-operatively respond to -each- instance where a question mark appears (some of my previous questions have gone unanswered)

1. Despite the topic of Cambodia's economy NOT being unrelated to (i), I suppose you're still in good faith allowing me to contribute to Wiki's directly to do with Cambodia's economy, or am I misinterpreting you?

2. IF interested in Cambodian private equity, it's likely one will be led to Cambodia's largest & only private equity firm - do you agree or disagree?

3. You state LC edits prior to my own were, "largely promotional spam, focused on companies of questionable notability". However except for the Kingdom Breweries and Nautisco links I inserted (for which I apologise and did so not knowing Wikipedia's external links policy), of the many, many other edits I did, precisely what contributions of mine amounted to 'promotional spam' (the history is there, please point this out)?

4. You say previous LC edits are "all very similar in style and content (restoring items removed and originally created by another related editor)". Precisely what items did I add to the LC page that were previously removed from the LC page?

5. Precisely what conduct of my own account makes "it just not believable that these [other, suspicious] accounts are unrelated" to my own account?

UR, you claim that "this small [Leopard Capital] group" has "received an inordinate amount of focus on Wikipedia". However in consideration of the Wikipedia Project of Countering Systemic-Bias, I object to your claim that LC has received an 'inordinate amount of focus' as being potentially invalid. Considering Wikipedia’s list of private equity firms mentions 204 firms, only 53 of which are not headquartered in America, and 0 which are based in Cambodia...if anything, to aid the very serious and increasingly important Wikipedia Project of Countering Systemic-Bias, it follows that LC and its like actually require more focus, not less.

6. Why is this not the case?

UR, you state as evidence for my having a conflict of interest that "instead of coming from one account - these edits were spread across multiple accounts that were designed to look like they were acting independently". This hardly seems fair to me, insofar as applying this argument as evidence for your claim of my alleged conflict of interest, would mean every Wikipedia entry previously encountering legitimate conflict of interests could not ever have any more contributions made to its page -- > this is an instance of a new editor minus a conflict of interest editing the page to improve it overall by reducing bias, improving tone and shortening length.

Above are six questions. In good faith, I ask that you answer each six directly.

Cheers (Petersgoldpan (talk) 12:39, 9 July 2011 (UTC))

Proposal re Petersgoldpan

As you know, neither you nor I (nor any other editor, for that matter) has the authority to declare that any other editor refrain form editing specific articles. That is done by a community decision, after posting at AN or ANI. However, that does not mean we cannot ask for voluntary compliance with reasonable restrictions.

In view of your observation of editing problems at Leopard Capital, i think you have suspicions that one or more editors or one editors with sockpuppets is editing in a way that isn't developing the article in accordance with the Leopard Capital. I would hope that fair editors would agree with your concerns, and be open to ways to resolve issues. In my view, the evidence that Petersgoldpan is contributing to the problem is not clear cut, but I grant others may see it differently. I approached Petersgoldpan and asked if he would in a gesture of good faith, agree to a six month moratorium on editing Leopard Capital. My thinking is that if the sole purpose of the editor is to puff up Leopard Capital, and other edits are just for cover, then this proposal would not be acceptable. In contrast if the editor is generally interested in improving articles related to an area of knowledge (Cambodia financial articles), that refraining from writing about one of them for six months wouldn't be a major problem. My suggestion is that we accept this offer, but jointly monitor edits to a number of articles, to ensure that all confirm to NPOV and other guidelines.

If this makes sense to you, I'll add the other articles in your list to my watchlist, and begin monitoring them. If this doesn't make sense, please let me know what you propose as an alternative, keeping in mind that our goal is to avoid the bureaucracy of WP:ANI and secure a voluntary agreement.--SPhilbrickT 13:29, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

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Yes, I have the same problems. Some of articles are brutally changed, others are even deleted. No surprise, Wikipedia loses editors. A pretty sad fact. But I still feel great by sharing the knowledge.

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Restored. see my talk p. &article talk p. for problems in its history and current info needed. I'm glad someone responsible will be looking after it. By now there is so much promotional writing here that it's hard to focus on the goal of improving it, when it's as much as can be done to just try and remove the worst of it, while also keeping in mind that promotional writing is very often copied from organization web pages. I try to be as careful as any admin here, but I must simply have judged by preponderance of adjectives. I'm not primarily interested in the commercial world, but I seem to do a good many screenings and rewrites of these articles, as most of my fellow admins have even less patience & interest . Please do correct me if I make an error. DGG ( talk ) 04:49, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

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we may add hedge funds as a source of money for investments. I have increasingly seen news that hedge funds do allocate some portion of their assets for private equity and even venture capital investments, as traditional stock and bond markets are terribly volatile now.

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Two years ago, you added a Category to the Accuride International page identifying it as Category:Private equity portfolio companies. I don't believe that is correct -- I suspect you confused it with Accuride Corporation, so I'm removing the Category. If I'm wrong about this, please supply a reliable source that Accuride International is in fact PE-owned. Thanks, --Macrakis (talk) 20:59, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

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Hi,

How is life in these hellish days? Yes, I like uploading new images, because they add quality and good-looking to articles. I remember your advice to submit new versions rather than delete old ones. I need some time to understand how it works.

As for Eric Sprott, I was brutally smashed by fellow wikipedians who overwhelmed me with arguments that this guy is not notable enough to have an artile in Wiki. It was a long and senseless discussion, and eventually somebody had the article deleted.

I still think about restoring it.

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Hi. It isn't necessary. The old logo isn't mentioned at all within the article, adds very little to it and simply appears to be decorative. Cloudbound (talk) 13:31, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

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Corporate Venture Capital

Hi,

I have found an interesting article that may require your attention. It is Corporate Venture Capital. Large corporations as sources of venture capital. Dow, Google, Cargill. I have added this type of investors to the pattern.

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Sir Urban Renewal: Thou Hast a Barnstar!

		Knight of Excellence in Finance and Private Equity Barnstar
		For prodigious contributions of the first quality in the areas of finance, private equity, and the formation of capital syndicates, for manifesting a habit of personal conduct that exemplifies the high ( but regrettably uncommon ) standard of social behavior that rightly obtains among persons of intelligence and good will; for upholding both our core principals and the policies that follow from them with a diligence that we all should strive to; and for having maintained these high standards in the midst of the conflicts and differences of opinion that inevitably arise here: For these acts and for just generally being a decent chap overall, you are righteously awarded the Ohiostandard Knighthood Order of Excellence barnstar, and its accompanying Shield and Coat of Arms, commensurate to your high station and noble conduct!  – OhioStandard (talk) 02:20, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

It's not bad form to award a barnstar to a stranger, I trust? In less exalted language, then, I just wanted to write a few words to express my great appreciation for your contributions here.

I don't work in finance; I don't have the temperment for it, and am just a very moderately-informed layman. But I've been fascinated (and often puzzled) for over 30 years now with how money works, with ways of pooling capital to form investment syndicates, with the opportunity and risk that capital represents, with problems of capital formation in underdeveloped regions, and with most aspects of commerce and finance, really. So when I noted the impressive quality of our article on the history of private equity and venture capital as I was amusing myself trying to learn a bit more about these topics last evening, I wasn't surprised to find from its contribution history that you created the article, and that you continue to help maintain it.

That didn't surprise me because there have been a great many times previously, as I've seen from article history, that I've had the benefit of your lights via other pages on these topics. So I thought it was about time I acknowledged your generosity in contributing so extensively to these areas, and with such uniformly outstanding quality.

There can be a kind of presumption in strongly praising another's work, of course, especially that of a stranger. I don't intend that, nor, of course, do I mean to speak too personally in any way by these comments. But with no wish to embarrass you by doing so, and appropriate humility notwithstanding, I'll conclude by saying that I think you should feel quite proud of your work here, and that I hope you do.

The entire world uses Wikipedia as a resource to inform and educate themselves, and I think the unprecedented immensity of that audience imposes a pretty solemn obligation on us all. Specifically, I feel it requires each of us to contribute the highest quality content he reasonably can. That same circumstance also seems to me to demand a certain respect and kind of humility: It rightly demands that we subordinate our persistent individual vanity and its accompanying urge toward competition, in favor of the often difficult process of effective collaboration.

It's my opinion that your work here answers these obligations and demands most admirably, and I, for one, honor you for it, and am grateful. Cordially,  – OhioStandard (talk) 02:20, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

A quick postscript: I see from your main userpage that you've displayed other barnstars there in a vertical or (same) "portrait" format. If you want to display this one there, and in that same orientation, please feel free to edit or revise it in any way you like, including the text message it contains, to jigger it into a conveniently compatible display format. Cheers,  – OhioStandard (talk) 02:30, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Removal of tags on List of investment banks

Please don't remove maintenance tags without addressing the issue or getting consensus that they don't apply. Contrary to what you may believe, citations are required to ensure WP:V, not just demonstrate WP:Notability of items in a list. Toddst1 (talk) 05:36, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

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Request for PEGCC draft review

Hi Urbanrenewal, I'm reaching out to you because of your involvement with WikiProject Private Equity; I'd like to bring your attention to a relevant discussion I'm trying to get started at WikiProject Cooperation. As a wikiproject, WP:CO-OP is new: a joint effort between volunteer Wikipedians and COI editors, aiming to keep input from PR types above-board. In this role I'm in the latter camp, and this is why I'm here: I've researched and written a proposed expansion of the article about the Private Equity Growth Capital Council (PEGCC). I've done so on their behalf, and with their input, however I've also worked hard to make sure my draft follows Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. But I'm not a disinterested party, and others at WP:CO-OP don't know a great deal about private equity. If you would be willing to review the draft and give your feedback on the WP:CO-OP discussion, I'd appreciate it. In case you are busy, I'll reach out to one other editor from Private Equity, but all are welcome. Cheers, WWB Too (talk) 17:46, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for giving the draft a look, especially in light of your views on COI. If you wouldn't mind looking at the discussion thread and the draft itself again, you'll see I've incorporated your suggestions. And if you have any other questions or comments, I'd be happy to look at them. Cheers, WWB Too (talk) 19:30, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

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Many thanks

		The Cooperation Barnstar
		Thanks for your assistance to WikiProject Cooperation, and efforts to help improve Private Equity Growth Capital Council!

I only just noticed that you moved the article over yesterday—very appreciated! Cheers, WWB Too (talk) 19:29, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

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Dead links in article 'Early history of private equity'

Hi. I tried to fix the dead links in 'Early history of private equity', but there were some that I couldn't fix. I marked them with {{Dead link}}. Can you help fix the remaining dead links?

Dead: http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:5BirPt3LPWgJ:www.buyoutsnews.com/story.asp%3Fstorycode%3D23408+%22gtcr+golder+rauner%22+%22thoma+cressey%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=17&gl=us

• You added this in July 2008.
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Dead: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/doriot_hi.html/

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