Talk:Carlos Slim Helú

message: I removed the following sentence from section "world's richest person": 
He has 2 sons: Christian Ani (last name was changed) and Sean Flowers ( from his hispanic mother). (sic) 
Apart from being not appropriately placed (obviously should be in section family), the introduction speaks of three sons leading his "empire". Also, what was changed and what? --Ben  T/C  05:42, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sons 

message: According to the latest Forbes 400, C.S. Helu and Bill Gates are tied at $59B. Read here. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/54/richlist07_William-Gates-III_BH69.html
Someone should fix this.
Animadictio 12:15, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The thing about "richest-person-in-the-world" info is that it can change every day/week/month/quarter/year, depending on how each person's many stock shares are currently valued. Probably a better way to break this out is to say in the lead simply "He is one of the richest people in the world", which is pipe-linked to List of billionaires (2007), and then just update the link once per year (e.g., change "2007" to "2008"). (New article starts with each year, as seen at List of billionaires.) It's pointless to reinvent in each rich person's article all that discussion of how things are figured and the pros and cons and details, when you can simply transclude it from the main article about such things. Maybe I'll implement this plan soon if I get "free time" (ha ha). — Lumbercutter 23:02, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Follow-up: It only took a minute to implement this plan, so I just did it now. — Lumbercutter 23:11, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Richest 

message: the first sentence should read:
"Carlos Slim Helú, born January 28, 1940 in Mexico City, is a Mexican businessman and one of the wealthiest men in the world as of October 14, 2007."
not:
"Carlos Slim Helú, born January 28, 1940 in Mexico City, is a Mexican businessman and one of the wealthiest man in the world as of October 14, 2007."
64.91.205.144 (talk) 06:39, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  correction 

message: Looking at the history of this article, I can see that some editors have removed footnotes. Please don't do that unless the footnote doesn't actually back up the statement. It is OK to use the same reference multiple times in an article. In fact, if a particular reference backs up multiple statements in an article, then the reference should be reused. --JHP (talk) 05:11, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Please don't remove footnotes

message: why is this page listed in the Ottoman Dynasty category?
Lee.shoe (talk) 06:21, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ottoman Dynasty

message: Is it worth mentioning that he has ordered thousands of "One laptop per child" laptops for mexican children? --88.73.219.26 (talk) 07:13, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  OLPC 

message: 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) 19:26, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  FORBES MISTAKE? 

message: When I typed in "World's Richest Man" on search, it redirected me to here.  I think we should change it to redirect to Warren Buffet or List of Billionaires.  At least, it shouldn't redirect here since Helu is not richest man anymore.Stevv (talk) 20:35, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  World's Richest Man redirection 

message: You should remove and avoid mentioning his mother's maiden name "Helu" as if it were his surname. In many Latin American countries, a person is known by his/her name, surname and mother's maiden name. The comparison with the American usage is that the Americans use "name, middle name and surname (family name)". That's why many English speaking persons mistake the Mother's maiden name as if it were the surname or family name. Mr. Carlos Slim should be addressed as Mr. Slim, and NOT Mr. Helu.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.37.120.18 (talk) 22:27, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Helú

message: There were two mentions of CompUSA in the "Achievements" section of the article.  Together, they seemed redundant.  The un-cited one implied that CompUSA still exists.  I removed that one.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.200.171.125 (talk) 05:29, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  CompUSA 

message: Julián established a dry goods store called La Estrella del Oriente (Star of the Orient) in 1911 and purchased...
If he was born in 1940, how did he establish a store in 1911?  Can someone verify the correct year?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Azmurath (talk • contribs) 03:25, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dry Good Store 

message: Carlos Salinas de Gortari (Ex-president of Mexico)is behind all of this, best friend and business partner of Mr.Carlos Slim Helu
TELMEX was a successful government company in Mexico, but once Salinas was running Mexico like a President, one of his wonderful ideas was sell this government company to his best friend Mr. Slim to make it 100% private company, after that, Slim became in one of the most richest guys in the entire world, and is important to say the next, in Mexico if you don't have a contract or agreement to get telecommunication services with TELMEX you will be uncommunicated, and just for the monopoly, yeah... you can't get telecommunication services with other company because other company doesn't even exist, the only choice is TELMEX, and if you've got phone service in Mexico is just with TELMEX, and is the only one telecommunication services provider in the entire Mexican nation. And you know why *CURRUPTION*and*MONOPOLY* 
Imagine if you and your buddies running a company to supply in your country whatever and the government helps you to shutdown all the competitors to make you the only one provider in the entire nation.
What do you think going to happen, you wont be rich, you will be trillionare, right.
That's what it was with Mr. Slim and Mr. Salinas.
Mr. Slim is one of the richest guys in the world and owns TELMEX the only one provider of telecommunication services in the Mexican nation and he is so grateful and thankful to have a his best friend as a business partner Mr.Carlos Salinas.
TELMEX was sold just for a few pesos in the 90's, approved by Mr. Salinas who was the president in that time. TELMEX is a multimillionaire company.
When TELMEX was operated and owned by the Mexican government the profit were designated to strength the Mexican economy. 
Now then, Mr. Salinas and Mr. Slim are living la vida loca, joining the pleasures of their empire made it against the rights of all the mexican  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.112.124.223 (talk) 07:59, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  THE TRUTH 

message: I guess people get paid for that but lets just delete it for the sake of truth.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.189.220.32 (talk) 12:56, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "Philanthropist". "Philanthropy is the act of donating money, goods, services, time and/or effort to support a socially beneficial cause, with a defined objective and with no financial or material reward to the donor." Does being extremely wealthy somehow disqualify one from committing philanthropy as well? --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 15:57, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

text: No, it doesn't. One can be both a vile oligarch and a lover of men. It's not a black-and-white world. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 16:48, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we please stop calling tycoons philantropists?

message: There should be a section on his personal life. There are reports that he is dating Princess Nour of Jordan.Пипумбрик (talk) 03:32, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life