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[edit] Rumours

Rumours surround a possible takeover of a football club?? It is thought he finds paticular intrest in the West Midlands football clubs as he thinks London has already got enough! Among his wish list are apparently: Birmingham City, West Brom. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nathan Hoey (talk • contribs) 17:48, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Not just rumours - he has just bought PFC CSKA Sofia and this is a very happy news for us (the bulgarians), he owns the biggest steel factory in Bulgaria (Kremikovci).

His birthday is NOT june 15. When given an birthday cake on june 15 2006 in the Belgian Senate, he admitted having told (on purpose) the wrong date on his website (mittalsteel.com). He doesn't want people to know his real birthday. 83.134.84.95 01:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Rumours circulating that he is interest in buying a football club in the West Midlands are again surrounding him although it is unsure if any football clubs are up for grabs in the West Midlands.

[edit] Picture Position

The picture with Lula makes reading the text around it awkward. Can someone who knows how please re-position this photo? Thanks. Jedimindtrick 15:41, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Is it better now ?--Milki 18:55, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, thanks Milki! Appreciate your help. There is however a chunk of white space in the area adjacent to where the two pictures 'meet'- could I request your help in moving the text around as well? Thanks! Jedimindtrick 15:42, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm planning on adding an entirely new section about Mittal and his relations with Foreign Leaders. I'll be moving the picture and MittalGate Scandal over there.--Milki 14:25, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Someone update to reflect Arcelor-Mittal Merger

Does anyone mind if I do it ?--Milki 22:56, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

somebody come up with a less goofy image

The figure for Mittal's London house was originally given as 50 million pounds. I have added in that this is equivalent to $127m, in line with the figure provided by the BBC in the link "Glimpsing a fairytale wedding" at the bottom of the page. At current exchange rates, this doesn't work out, so revert this if it is incorrect. --MichaelWest 29 June 2005 13:18 (UTC)

-does anyone know how old this guy is? He's gonna be richer than warren buffet one day.

Do we have a birthdate for him?

He was born on 15 June 1950 in a small village Sadulpur of Churu district in Rajasthan in India. Here is the Biographic link:

http://www.webindia123.com/personal/abroad/mittal.htm burdak 09:25, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

Can we get a picture again? Shawnc 09:53, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge from Lakshmi Nivas Mittal

Lakshmi Nivas Mittal is a stub article with a pointer to this article as one of its external links, and is merely a variant spelling of Lakshmi Niwas Mittal.

merge it!

[edit] Request (Vandalism?)

Could the user at 24.11.163.197 (also editing from 35.8.219.117) please stop adding irrelevant and unverifiable information to the page, particularly what you have repeatedly re-inserted- about someone called 'vesh dar'.

[edit] How rich is he?

This article lists him as both the 3rd richest man in the world and the 5th richest man in the world. I realize the numbers are probably not definite and are subject to change, but we should arrive at some wording that's not so blatently contradictory. MK2 03:09, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

It was 3rd, it's 5th now.--Milki 15:09, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

New forbs rich listout. 3rd again. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.147.137.134 (talk) 20:29, 11 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Why isn't this one encyclopaedic?

Can any one clarify as to why following passage isn't encyclopaedic , a reason for which it has been remove by Aksi?After all, great business leaders like Lakshmi Mittal ji have been subject to prophesies? Prophesies are an indisputable part of life.After all,the West has great traditio of celebrating prophesies as those by Nastradamus.

"However, At a time when most analysts had doubted LN Mittal's bid for Arcelor to succeed, Swami Apratimanand Ji predicted on 23rd of February,2006 that LN Mittal was destined to take over Arcelor, a prophesy which indeed came true!"[[1]]

Kushwah 10:26, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kushwah (talk • contribs) 10:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Indian ?

In the article he is identified as an Indian. But he has been residing in London for several decades. So what makes him an Indian. Does he still hold the Indian citizenship. As far as I know India does not allow dual citizenship. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.120.103.242 (talk) 18:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC).

India does allow dual citizenship. And he's not been living in UK for "decades". He first ventured out into Indonesia in the 1980s and has been acquiring Govenment-owned steel mills around the world since. Plus he holds onto his Indian Passport because he's proud to be Indian and upholding Indian values.Tri400 10:26, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Labour donations

Many suspected that a donation by Mittal to the British Labour Party had led to Blair's intervention (a letter to the Romanian Prime Minister) in a business deal favouring Mittal.

I have removed this line from the article as an unsourced allegation. violet/riga (t) 09:46, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo - official photo of Lakshmi Mittal

Hey guys, can we have the official photo of Mr. Mittal that is available on the ArcelorMittal website? It looks much better and normal than the clownish one we have on his page at the moment. Tri400 15:34, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

We can try. I think copyright pictures are allowed on Wikipedia for certain reasons. Not sure which though Vishnuchakra 17:45, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

I do not think that the photo we have right now is clownish. Also, it is a free image (published under creative commons). All photos from the website would be copyright. We prefer free photos over copyrighted ones any day. Please see WP:FU for examples on where copyrighted images could be used. - Aksi_great (talk) 18:05, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

We already have one on the Arun Sarin page from Vodafone's press kit. Both the pictures from ArcelorMittal and Vodafone are of huge resolution, freely available for download. Obviously they are mean to be used by the media. I think some websites also say that the photos can be used without permission for non-profit purposes.

Besides, this one that we do have is blurry, and improper. Tri400 13:42, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

The thing is we can't officially use the pictures until we KNOW that it is meant for the ~~meant~~ media. There are several pictures that are freely downloadable on the Internet, it doesn't mean they're copyright free. I do agree that it is a bit "clownish". Also I don't think we can use a Copyrighted image when a free one is available Vishnuchakra 14:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Man, obviously its free to use by the newspapers, media etc. It says so very clearly on Logitech's official website to not alter the original image to a false representation of their products, logos, executives, etc. But we are free to use these images. After all, they want publicity, and they have said they dont want their images/photos altered in a bad way. Why do so many world-class companies offer high-resolution images for free download? So that the media/magazines can easily publish these studio images and sometimes they do. Tri400 15:58, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Mittal Affair

User 91.106.29.136 removed the sourced section on 11-10 about the Mittal Affair without giving reason for this. Added it backDrachenfyre 10:12, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] House Price Problems

This article says his house in London cost 70 million pounds, but the Wiki article for Kensington Palace Gardens states this is incorrect, "The sale was widely misreported at £70 million,[1] before accurate figures were available from HM Land Registry, where records state that on 30 June 2004, 18-19 Kensington Palace Gardens, along with three mews houses at the rear of the property, sold for £57,145,967[2]"

Will registered users please resolve. Thank you. 69.111.9.79 (talk) 20:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge Mittal Affair?

Mittal Affair article is a copy-and-paste of the section of the same name in this article. I am calling for a merger or speedy deletion of the former. Brokenwit (talk) 09:39, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I disagree. The Mittal Affair should be expanded rather then deleted. More information has become available since I first wrote this section in History of Plaid Cymru and on the Mittal artical. Since then, others have added it to other sections and someone did start this as a stand alone artical. It needs expansion rather then deletion. Drachenfyre (talk) 21:48, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Keep It deserves a separate page. Prashanthns (talk) 10:43, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FORBES MISTAKE?

I must say something i noticed.The stock prices that were used for the list are from 11th of february.OK.Arcelormittal close price for 11th of febr is 67.82 you can see that on the site.Also,another thing you can see is mittal family stake which is 43.04%=623620000 million shares.If you make a multiplication 623620000 x 67.82 thats equal to 42293908400 billion dollars...why Forbes says its 45? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.72.69.137 (talk) 19:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

My problem is that his wealth says 27.7 billion pounds when it said $45 B dollars just a few days ago. When did the value of his shares drop almost by half? When the hell did this happen? His stock has only dropped less than 4% in the past month. His wealth is $45 B. Leave it that way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.244.148.116 (talk) 07:07, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] its correct

When they say its 27.7 billion pounds its right...because thats the value of his stake in arcelor mittal the day that the sunday times published the list...and 27.7 billion pounds its about 55 billion dollars..right now his fortune is about 58.9 billion —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virgilios (talk • contribs) 10:16, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

according to the last stock price from friday....which is 94.57 623620000x94.57=58975743400. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virgilios (talk • contribs) 10:18, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Richer Than Gates. And the current title of 3rd richest man on earth?

At the current stock value. That would make his stake in the company worth more than Gates'. I think thats correct too. Because at his last MS stock value. Gates was at $58.0 B. Making Mittal richer by almost a billion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.224.175.64 (talk) 21:05, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

As of May 17 2008, Mittal's stake(43.06%) in AM is worth $ 62.18 billion. [2]. His personal wealth may be around $63-64 billion. Axxn (talk) 03:47, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

So then its true. He is the current worlds richest man. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.244.148.116 (talk) 06:17, 19 May 2008 (UTC)