Talk:Enron scandal

message: Oil trader is now one of the richest people in the USA. He started a hedge fund with 'ill gotten' money from Enron. http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/110948/youngest-billionaires-in-america;_ylt=AjDHSW6ZANtGQoWnekbPcIpO7sMF;_ylu=X3oDMTFhNGY5bjNkBHBvcwMzBHNlYwNwZXJzb25hbEZpbmFuY2UEc2xrA2FtZXJpY2FzeW91bg--?mod=career-leadership 
--Ericg33 (talk) 10:33, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  John D Arnold 

message: After working on the article for the last week, I have nominated the article at Good article nominations. Before the article is reviewed, try and give the article a copyedit to further improve the article. Good work to all who have contributed to the article in the past. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 20:58, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Nominated at GAN

message: User:Gavin.collins has confirmed that due to a misunderstanding, much of the sourced text that he has added in to this article is a copyvio of the source he got it from.  I don't have access to most of these sources - they are not online.  Is there a possibility of anyone here rewriting Gavin's contributions to avoid copyvio.  Otherwise I am going to have to delete all of his contributions, which would kind of wreck the article. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 16:10, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll be able to re-write the portions of the article, but it will not be in the next day or so as requested on his talk page as it will take some time to look at each source. It's sat here this long already, so another few days are not going to hurt. I'll probably be able to do it within the week and would welcome Gavin.collins' assistance. He did a great job finding the quality sources for improving this article, we just need to tinker with the wording a bit. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 01:45, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd rather it was fixed than deleted.  I'll leave you to talk to Gavin about it - I don't think he's unwilling to fix it, but I don't know how he's placed for time. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 11:24, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to be busy for the rest of the week, but I'll be able to fix the article at the beginning of next week. Anything Gavin/others wants to do between that time would be great. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:08, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I've rewrote, reworded, removed, and shuffled sentences based on the sources cited. I had previously done this when I first started working on the article, but I believe I have now fixed all other occurrences. In addition, I also added WebCite links for all of the sources where possible to prevent link rot. This article has the potential to be an FA candidate down the line but is going to need further copyediting for clarity and additional book sources (along with a few images). --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:24, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio alert 

message: I think the figure quoted in the 4th paragraph of 1 The Rise of Enron are incorrect.
It states that the Enron stock rose by 311%! - but the next sentence seems to give a contrary effect. I wonder if a decimal point has got missed out somewhere. I have placed a citation needed note on this. 
If you have better information, please correct this.
The complete sentence reads:
Enron's stock increased from the start of the 1990s until year-end 1998 by 311%[citation needed], only modestly higher than the average rate of growth in the Standard & Poor 500 index.
Notthebestusername (talk) 05:38, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong numbers in 1 Rise of Enron 

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message: I would have contacted you on your talk page but could not figure out who you are. I clicked on 2604:3d08:5681:2c00:d64:a5f:5674:abe9 but it did not go to a talk page.  I'm trying to understand why your opinion is superior to mine.  My comment to the first reversion was sincere. Your reply seemed to be intentionally provocative. I'm not a vandal and do not respond well to being called one.  Wiki name (talk) 15:34, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: While I think the additon of Enron's manual of ethics can be supportive to the main article, I don't think the caption is; sure if some publication or person wrote or said that Enron having a manual of ethics is ironic it can be added like so in the picture caption, but just having the word "irony" on this picture with no context it makes it look more of a humoristic nature rather to inform the reader that, even though Enron is the subject of this accounting scandal, they had a manual of ethics. -Gouleg (Talk • Contribs) 17:10, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: You did not explain why your opinion is superior to mine.  Though a definition of irony is "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result"  I'm happy to change the caption to "The subjects of this accounting scandal published this manual of ethics" if you prefer it. Wiki name (talk) 17:54, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Never implied my opinion was superior to yours. Just stated why this caption didn't fit with the overall encyclopedic tone of this article; one of the main rules of Wikipedia is to infrom in a neutral POV, which is not restricted to negative or positive bias, but also tone of writing. I agree with your new suggested caption for the picture. -Gouleg (Talk • Contribs) 18:14, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  To whomever reverted my edit 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :EnWrong. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 27#EnWrong until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Steel1943 (talk) 18:19, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "EnWrong" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: While I would never suggest that ownership is a good thing, I've noticed yet another instance where an article so large is fragmented with parts having no (remaining) connection to the other text, or history, or relevance.
Out of the blue there's a paragraph beginning:
::Although Michael Kopper worked for Enron for over seven years before the scandal became public, ...
And no identification of who or what is being talked about.
In a version of the article over 10 years ago, the text breathlessly included:
::Nonetheless, Kopper would be one of the main ingredients in Enrons recipe for disaster when he, along with Glisan, would help Fastow create the off-balance sheets for the corporation.
Looking around one can find mentions in other articles to Chewco and JEDI and such. So the person is real. And apparently contributed a lot to the debacle. But here, no explanation or,  that is, no remaining explanation. Shenme (talk) 03:27, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  As failed the company, so the article? 

message: After FTX collapse, Sam Bankman-Fried exit, new CEO bankruptcy expert lawyer John Ray is in the news. "John Ray III, was chairman and president of Enron Creditors Recovery Corp." Seems important. Perhaps someone with an interest, understanding of the Enron debacle can weave Ray into the article.
Doug Grinbergs (talk) 21:41, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Ray / Enron Creditors Recovery Corp.