Talk:Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Why has this article been truncated?
I just happened to be reading my Watchlist and checked out this article - and I was surprised by what I found. I notice that this article - originally much longer - has really been cut back. Can anyone please explain why this has happened? It all seems to have happened since the article was edited by Bots. Is this supposed to happen, or is the article meant to be longer? Would a revert to a previous, longer version be in order, or would this be unecessary? abdullahazzam

The Selfish Gene
This Dawkins connection reminds me of Catcher in the Rye, though I think fewer people blamed Salinger. 137.111.47.29 (talk) 09:30, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

How is this film argued to be noteable?
I'm wondering, how is this film argued to be noteable? The film "The Money Masters" has been deleted several times from wikipedia but has been seen by 200 thousand at a very minimum since it started to gain momentum on the net around 2005 or earlier. Currently it is freely available on both google video and youtube, it is one of the most viewed on youtube, and it is one of the most well documented of its kind. The film is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. there is even a wikiproject for documenting films (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Documentary_films) but it seems this film is not deemed noteable enough for some curious reason. One wikipedia moderator seems also intent on stifling all valid discussion on the subject, even silencing and deleting the discussion pages on it even after a 'hang on' tag has been added.Nunamiut (talk) 13:02, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Categorization adjusted
I've put the project boxes into a Project Banner Shell, and set blp=yes at the same time. This article is rife with unsourced statements about various living individuals. ++Lar: t/c 22:33, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Trading bandwidth
The film also talks about Enron attempting to create a market to trade broadband bandwidth. This is not mentioned in the article though the very brief mention of a deal with Blockbuster for movies on demand (presumably utilising this capability) is.

This is interesting in that this might have rung alarm bells with people familiar with the technologies involved (since it is a very implausible idea; somewhat analogous to trading your own uncongested route to work with some else's more congested route - whilst still both starting from your normal location and arriving at your normal job). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.104.10 (talk) 17:24, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Factual Errors n Synopsis
The synopsis contains errors of fact regarding Enron's history; I haven't tried to edit because, not having seen the film, it's not clear whether the film itself is the source of the errors or the article's author has misinterpreted the film.

Specifically: 1. Ken Lay did not found the company, whose history is accurately summarized in the Wikipedia art. on the company. 2. Louis Borget was not Enron CEO, but the head of a trading division. 3. Jeff Skilling did not join the company at the position of CEO. 4. Skilling did not join the company on condition that the company adopt mark-to-market accounting; as reported in Kurt Eichenwald's Conspiracy of Fools, the company only did so after receiving approval from its auditors and the Securities and Exchange Commission. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.57.201.248 (talk) 16:16, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

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Someone needs to look at this article
someone turned it into a summary of Marvel 2600:8800:2911:2100:2D49:AAEE:AC60:3F4D (talk) 16:57, 16 June 2024 (UTC)