User talk:Iifacts

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Stock information

Before re-adding the stock information, please see WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:INDISCRIMINATE. The stock information is likely to be outdated within hours, considering the nature of the stock market. If you re-add it, I will bring this to the attention of Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents for further input. Before doing so, though, I am willing to discuss this further on your talk page. Gary King (talk) 16:11, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gary,

I will definitely add the stock holding info to Warren Buffett /Berkshire Hathaway pages because this is what readers want to see and why they come to these pages. You are making the whole page non-readable and much less useful. The old page is much better and your way of dictating is not right. People come to these pages because Warren Buffett is a legendary stock picker. If you remove the stock part, you basically cut Buffett's head off.

The stock holding info I put on is from the latest Berkshire 13F filing with SEC. It's not stock quote or anything changing fast. It's what Berkshire tells world what they bought/held/sold in last quarter.

Always keep in mind Warren Buffett is about investment, i.e., stocks, without that, the page is dead, or your page is dead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iifacts (talk • contribs)

We are writing an encyclopedia, not copying and pasting information from other sources onto here. If you really want to, you can add an external link to the stock information from the Berkshire Hathaway article. Gary King (talk) 02:21, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your editing lowered the overall quality of this page significantly. Please reverse all your editing back to the good old page, especially the time line. The time line and stock holdings are the best part of this page and you removed all of them. That's very sad. If you don't know/care much about investment/stocks, please leave this page alone. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iifacts (talk • contribs) 02:31, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please respond on your own talk page and not mine, so that we can keep this discussion together if others wish to weigh in on it. In response to your latest message, I do care about investment/stocks, and especially the state of Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. Please take a look at other articles about economists, such as Harold Innis, which is one of several prime examples for what Buffett's article should aspire to. As for the timeline that was previously in the article, it was essentially prose line, which is discouraged. Gary King (talk) 02:35, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) While it is definitely true that Warren Buffet is a "legendary" investor (my personal beliefs notwithstanding), adding a list of stocks owned would be bordering on trivia and would be adding undue weight to the article. Also, consider that keeping the info up-to-date and verifiable would be very time-consuming. Dabomb87 (talk) 02:36, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To Dabomb87: it seems that you are in charge here...the stock info is up-to-date and verifiable (SEC.gov), I will maintain that. Removing stock holding info from Warren Buffett's page is doing a disservice to the readers.