Talk:Personal budget

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This might be the worst Wikipedia article I've ever read, and that's saying a lot. I'm not experienced enough to edit this whole page, but hopefully some heroic veteran can save it. I don't think it would be a bad idea to delete the whole thing altogether. Iskeptic 20:53, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I second that this article is very poorly written, however there is a lot of useful information here. Most of my criticism has to do with style, and not substance. It seems that the person that wrote this article had never read a Wikipedia article before.

I am working on revising this topic. My current progress can be found here. --Kenneth Cochran 12:03, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Please do. I have started to write on the similar article in Swedish. So far it's short, mainly about how to organise your budget and tools that can help. Hawklord 20:49, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I've started to incorporate some of my changes into the main article. The large amount of editing required would make it difficult to merge my completed copy into the main article. So instead I'll just edit the article in small increments. --Kenneth Cochran 13:17, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

It might help to break this into seperate pages. The methods should go under the link that the "Budget" page on wikipedia refers to under Personal Budgets. I agree, the content here is awful. It's also heavily biased. It should just be a definition of what a personal budget is, and separate pages listing all the methods, criticism of different methods, etc, and another one listing all the tools (if it's possible to separate them out as some are tightly coupled with a unique method). --Hpatenaude 19:38, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I'll take my stabs at some of the more outrageous paragraphs... it should sound less like WikiHow though. —Rob (talk) 20:05, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Original research

One of the things about the article even now is that a lot of it smacks of original research. The more references to back up what's being said in this article (and with as many personal budgeting methods as there are in existence, this is hard)... the better. —Rob (talk) 16:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Envelope budgeting...

It's not particularly difficult. It's not all that complex. It really should be merged into Personal budget. Will merge in 7 days (2006-09-29). —Rob (talk) 18:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

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