Talk:David and Simon Reuben

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Two things - First, this seems to be more about the Ken Livingstone comment rather than about them, is there any way we can include more about them and even what their criticisms of Ken were? Second, the word 'billion' is used here, which I assume to be an American billion, so I have changed this to use figures (thus removing ambiguity). DavidFarmbrough 09:51, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

"Billion" was taken from the Guardian profile, and the brothers have regularly been described in the UK press as "billionaires". I don't think any papers in the US have covered the brothers or their flap with Livingstone. I'm happy with either rendering, though. I am going to remove the sentence about their dealings in Iran, since this was only one of many countries in which they did business, and as presently placed it suggests that their business interests are what Livingstone was referring to. The BBC, The Times, and all over coverage has suggested he was simply telling them to "go back to [their country]", as the BBC puts it, so it would be more appropriate to swap in a sentence stating that Livingstone was incorrect and they are not from Iran, but for now I'll just remove the present sentence and not put anything in its stead. Babajobu 13:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Splitting the article

No matter how closely they work, it's a tad ridiculous that the two have a single article between them. They are each billionaires by themselves, which ought to justify separate articles. That's ignoring that they were born three years apart and went into different industries (Simon is the 'property czar', David the 'metals czar'). I see no reason not to have this article too (or, rather 'Reuben Brothers') for their collective achievements, but to have separate articles for their personal accomplishments, which are many. Bastin 16:51, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jews and Judaism/WikiProject India

So they are Baghdadi Jews who were born in India. So what? I don't see any reason to have the Jews and Judaism template in this page since it mentions absolutely nothing about Jewish religion or culture and their contributions to it. They are competent businessmen and including them in templates about billionaires and such is fine, but unless they've actually made some contribution to Jewish thought or culture like Maimonides or Theodor Herzl why include them in the Jews and Judaism project? Ditto for the Wikiproject India inclusion? They have as much to do with India as Vivian Leigh did (she was also born in India). So why include them in WikiProject India when they've made all their money in the UK —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.199.177.246 (talk) 16:19, 2 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Needs a cleanup

This article contains lines such as "The Reuben brothers have had the look of champions for several decades" and "People might not know much about them" which reads like a fan site. As such, I've tagged it for clean up. ImmunolPhD 14:24, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

  • In my opinion, this article still needs some work, at the very least with citing references in a proper Wikipedia sort of way. However, some person (I assume it is the same person... a coordinated group of like-minded people working in concert to de-tag this article seems hard to believe.) is obsessed with removing any cleanup tag attached to the article. At this point, I don't really care about the article anymore. I am more interested in knowing why someone has such a strong distaste for cleanup tags that they would repeatedly remove any tag placed on this article without doing any editing to address the concern! Please, if you are out there, just let me know why so I can stop wondering. - BierHerr 21:21, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

The quotes have had the look of champions, and people might not know much about them have been removed, this article has been cleared up and is important to many business journalists like myself

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 17:45, 9 November 2007 (UTC)