Talk:Reuben Singh

message: Through bickering between what appears to be the subject (or someone close to them) and a third party with a grudge, this article appears to be a horrible mess.
Just a few points: 
- Linking to Reuben singh's own webpage is NOT an indication of the businesses success.
- Of course the business was bought for £1 due to debts - nothing was suggested otherwise.
- He was NOT 'honoured' by the Queen at all. That is a highly misleading implication!
- The insolvency page link does not work.
There is nothing wrong with updating this page to balance the rather poor image the subject suffered in recent times, but unfortunately these edits, no matter how well meaning, are insufficient. Claiming it is a 'true' reflection is meaningless without citations. All the references added so far are from pre-2005.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thanos264 (talk • contribs) 09:24, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations

message: This page is currently a true reflection on the biography and history of Reuben Singh to date.
It seems users are taking the liberty to paint a certain picture of Reuben Singh by deleting any facts that portray him in a positive manner. Reading the discussions and looking at the history it seems that a certain individual believes that disclosing any positive facts or achievements of Singh is detrimental to their own personal agenda. They then write on this discussion or edit notes that they believe it to be "vandalism" to report these positive facts even though they are reported with verifiable resources. They fail to take notice that these sources have been clearly referenced and instead try to infer that the facts are not referenced. This is now starting to get childish and if the certain individual was to take a closer look then no negative facts previously written have been deleted whilst our and other contributors have added their information to the article. Neutrality and factual reporting is the true basis of Wikipedia and contributors need to work together to ensure thisArc2466 (talk) 17:05, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalising This Page

message: Clearly written by Reuben or someone associated with him. Put the facts, not rose tinted glossy rubbish that sounds like a section from the Reuben Singh Fan Club. If he's done something good or successful, put it in here with links to verify it. Otherwise stop vandalising the page.
He has received hundreds of positive news articles, a misunderstood brilliant entrepreneur, people who have met him like him, an undisputable success, blah blah - this sort of nonsense has no place on Wikipedia.
:I'm not sure how you can say that the current version of the article was "sounds like a section from the Reuben Singh Fan Club".  It goes on at great length about his problems. ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs) 21:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I thought it was written by Tellnolie, and I was trying to encourage Tellnolie to bring his concerns here rather than vandalising.  Sorry. ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 18:06, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant and/or sycophantic text 

message: I don't know if the 'Banana' part is important but I've definitely seen more than one yellow Bentley in my life. And I hear Jamie Foxx owned one at some point too. TB: 82.10.39.234 19:13, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only Banana yellow Bentley? 

message: All Sikh men wear turbans and beards, so is this really "notable"? --ukexpat 17:38, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: User 62.189.148.70 thank you for your input and I accept I may not be as learned as yourself on editing an article on Wikipedia and welcome your advise. I think that the current article has been given all the referenced sources by User Arc who has possibly added more verifiable sources than I may have should be acceptable to you and a highly referenced article. However I feel it is unfair not to report the most up-to-date information and as an independent journalist I feel it is only correct to portray a fair representation. I think reporting his bankruptcy is valid as long as one then reports his subsequent discharge from thisMiketridore (talk) 08:59, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Factual Information & Sourced

message: User Miketridore, you have made several claims (as well as completely mangling the article up). You say Reuben Singh has been cleared and his business is growing. You do not however state any sources for this and there seems to be no evidence from searching on Google. While all your claims may be true, the sort of editing you have done is not welcomed with verfiable sources, so will be considered vandalism until you learn how to edit an article properly!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.189.148.70 (talk) 13:24, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced claims of growth and comeback? 

message: In the same manner as there is no place for irrelevant praise for a person on Wikipedia this is no place to continue to distort the facts of an individual which it seems some unknown person has done to work which has taken a great deal of time to research. Factual information is not to be deleted on Wikipedia just for some "one" person to defame an individual and not others see a true picture of both positive and negative aspects of, in this case, Reuben Singh's history.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Miketridore (talk • contribs) 16:48, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalising this Biography 

message: There is clear manipulation of this article to remove negative stories about Mr Singh.  His  reason for notoriety is that he became widely known for business success which turned out to be false, when his companies were sold for token sums or liquidated.  He was declared bankrupt and called a 'fantasist and a liar' by the judge.  All this information has been gradually removed from the article, which now portrays him as a successful businessman and government advisor.
A few days later and the entry has been edited to remove the main reason for Mr Singh's notoriety (his exposure as a business fraud). Daveroberts82 (talk) 12:41, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blatant sanitizing 

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