Talk:Billionaire Boys Club

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[edit] "Reforming" of BBC

I deleted the following paragraph from the article:

In early 2008 the BBC was reborn by 7 college students 4 from SMU 2 from OU and one law student from John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL. Their parents supported the organization. This social group was founded under the principles to change the ideals of the former BBC, and help make social connections between the World's next leaders.

My reasoning:

1) This is a grammatical mess, and I'm not even sure I understand what it's talking about. What are SMU and OU? Presumably schools, but you can't throw abbreviations like that into WP without first using their expanded forms. And their principles are to change past ideals? What?

2) A murderous Ponzi scheme...was reformed? This seems dubious to me. At the very least the paragraph needs to be rewritten to make sense and explain why such a group as the BBC would be something people want to restart, but I'm inclined to hold out until such a thing can be sourced. If this is indeed an official club of some sort, it must at some point be mentioned somewhere - newspaper, college records?

3) Even assuming the paragraph's contents are all true, this is not a NPOV paragraph. The "world's next leaders" is a somewhat inflated view of anyone who's not actually a president of a country or something. Chaoticfluffy (talk) 20:30, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Good call. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 20:33, 22 May 2008 (UTC)