Talk:Face value

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I reverted the material linking to an offsite location that purported to have life insurance definitions, since it looked like a low-quality resource, and appeared to be more commercial than informational. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Riedl (talk • contribs)

What's with the recent edits to this page? The edit that dropped all the explanations of different types of face value (e.g., life insurance) seems a significant loss to me. Why wouldn't we want to keep all those careful explanations? I'm going to revert back to a version that includes that material.

I don't mind keeping the athletic analogy -- though it's a bit of a stretch to me, and will be too hard to follow for anyone except a native-speaking sports fan, but I see no need to drop the version that explains the concept abstractly. I'm going to mix together the best of all of these versions. Please discuss here if you don't like the result.

Face value also applies to bonds. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Riedl (talk • contribs)

When there's substantial loss of content, I note that it's usually someone who hasn't a username. I'm not sure if it's outright vandalism, or if it's just someone who is curious as to whether they have the power to make edits. And then there are the jokers. Someone put merge tags on the South Dakota and North Dakota articles earlier today, suggesting that they be turned into one article. That one struck my funnybone a little. Most of the vandals do things like changing the state motto of a state to "Go Panthers! Class of '07 Rulez".

In any case, thank you for your kind words; when I chanced upon this page in July, the only meaning given to face value was the nominal value of a coin that had greater value as a collectible, and I added most of the financial instrument meanings at that time. If I was doing it today, I'd provide footnotes for every definition, showing where the information had been published by a reliable source. Wikipedia policy is that, if you don't have a source cited, the content may be removed by any editor, and that includes people who haven't registered. So the guy who deleted that wasn't violating official WikiPedia policy. Unofficial guidelines, like WP:DBAD, are a little different matter. In any case, most cases like this are reverted within moments (and thank you for that, too!) and we add the citations as soon after. ClairSamoht - Help make Wikipedia the most authoritative source of information in the world 23:03, 25 September 2006 (UTC)