Talk:Hector Sants

Iran controversy
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I have redacted the above discussion. The sources presented re Iran do not support the inclusion of this text in an article about Mr. Sants; I have no opinion on whether they may be appropriate in, here they represent a novel synthesis from published sources and are also potentially defamatory. There have been complaints to the Wikimedia Foundation about this (see WP:OTRS). It would be unwise in the extreme to continue to use this article or its talk page as a platform for this discussion. Guy (Help!) 18:06, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The controversies section is surely inappropriate for the content now listed (Select committee inquiry into FSA). It would be much better to just add that bit to the career section under the FSA sub-heading. E. Fokker (talk) 03:23, 28 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Removed controversies section. This is blatant and open censorship. It goes against everything Wikipedia should stand for. Shame on you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.173.198.239 (talk) 12:40, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Pay controversy
Could we put in a section regarding Hector Sant's pay of £795,192? (source http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nine-thousand-public-sector-staff-earn-more-than-pm-2084129.html) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.130.207 (talk) 11:50, 23 September 2010


 * I don't know if it's usual to publish salaries in bio articles. Check Biographies of living persons. A suppose you have to pay that much to get a poacher to turn gamekeeper when poachers are payed so much. (P.S. wouldn't mind being on 5 times PM's salary myself!) AWhiteC (talk) 21:33, 24 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Personally I don't buy the "poacher turned gamekeeper" argument. But as I don't fancy getting a call from FSA lawyers, I'll say no more for now. In reality, to someone like Sants £795K is petty cash.

Extraordinary!
The subject of this article was the head of the FSA at the time of some monolithic financial disasters, for which the FSA is held responsible by a large proportion of those who have heard of it. But there is no mention of this whatsoever. I am not asking for opinions! But these are not called for. The purpose of an encyclopaedia is to inform. This article is woefully lacking in relevant information, the importance of which - in this situation - cannot be under-estimated. I'm sure that someone or some people have been editing out such information. I won't use the word "shameful" to describe this. Many, I repeat many, *would* use that word to describe wiki people on the whole giving any such editing life. Boscaswell (talk) 10:51, 3 May 2012 (UTC)


 * There has been some redacting; see revision history. I have been watching this page for some time, and I was not happy with that at the time. However, as the article says, "In May 2004 Sants joined the Financial Services Authority as the Managing Director responsible for Wholesale and Institutional Markets. He was appointed FSA Chief Executive in July 2007." So he became CEO a only a month before the credit crunch, and thus can hardly be held primarily responsible for it. The FSA under Turner and Hants has been much more proactive than it had been during the somnolent years leading up to the crisis. He is an industry insider who seems to me to be less keen on reforming the finance industry than Lord Turner. At the end of the day, if you have well-sourced information to add to the article to make for a more balanced picture, go ahead ... Wildfowl (talk) 16:06, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * But! He was  the Managing Director responsible for Wholesale and Institutional Markets (for the three years prior to his apptmt as Chief Exec)...!? I don't profess to know all the ins and outs of the internal workings of the FSA, but then I've never been one to cover walls with whitewash either.  It would of course have been impossible for anyone heading up the FSA post-credit crunch to have been as somnolent as had been the case before and not be crucified by everyone, would it not? Reading this article reminded me a little of the constant whitewashing if not eulogising of a certain Mr Putin on another page here.  And then there was the lack of explanation of what the various firms he worked for were/became, what his job title means/meant etc etc.  Impenetrable to all but those already "in the know".  I didn't think that that was what wiki was about.Boscaswell (talk) 02:30, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

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