Talk:James Altucher

Notability
I see a Notability template at the top of this article, suggesting that James Altucher may not meet the notability guidelines. I would say that James Altucher is well known as an investing commentator, so he is as notable as many well known journalists. Just don't try to claim that he is actually a good investor. As the article states, he lost virtually all of the $15 million he started with in the late 1990s. That's not the sign of a good investor; that's the sign of a phenomenally bad investor. --JHP (talk) 21:00, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

First job
In this blog post on Quora, James describes how he got the job at HBO---it doesn't sound like it was his first. --StefanVanDerWalt (talk) 11:45, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Not current
This piece reads like a fan site. It repeatedly uses the term "currently..." as if information that is one or more years old is somehow current. The two references I checked are both incorrect (either broken or contradict the assertion made in this piece)*, meaning a 100% error rate based on the sample. Is it acceptable to have an undated reference listed? If so, it shouldn't be, imho. Specifically, I checked reference #14 (Level One) which had NOTHING about him (on that page) and #30 (CNBC) which had 1 hit in the last year (as of 7/25/14) and NOTHING for the last 180 days, thus contradicting the claim that he is a frequent contributor. Note to editor: using "new", "current(ly)", "recently", "this year", etc. in an article in a reference work is foolish and will certainly mislead the reader (eventually). *When I attempted to annotate those references, I was unable to locate them (due to my ignorance in what {reflist|2} means)...If someone else wants to take the task on, go for it!173.189.73.1 (talk) 06:55, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

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Bad sourcing, needs cull
Just did a reference check. Most of the sources are primary or non-RSes. The whole thing comes across as an advertisement. Will be culling thoroughly in a few days strictly to claims in third-party RSes, per WP:BLP - David Gerard (talk) 11:56, 29 October 2017 (UTC)


 * It's been two months, culling tagged sources - David Gerard (talk) 17:46, 24 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Culled questionable sources and removed claims cited only to a non-RS-quality source. His contributions to Thought Catalog and HuffPost were as a blogger (and substantially as a blogger to TechCrunch's Crunch Network). This leaves the article looking skimpy, but that's what happens when a BLP full of puffery gets culled to RSes. If fans of Altucher object, they need to thoroughly source more WP:RS-quality verifiable third-party coverage, up to the standards of WP:BLP - David Gerard (talk) 17:55, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

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yahoo link
why are you deleting the link to the yahoo finance writeup on him? Cyberwonka (talk) 23:46, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Proposed for Deletion
As other users have noted throughout the past on this talk page, this article seems to be written as a self promotion, has various unreliable sources and uncited claims.


 * The first citation for "American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, best-selling author, venture capitalist, and podcaster" links to a 2011 article from Bloomberg Businessweek. This article requires you to be a Bloomberg Professional Service Subscriber to view past the first paragraph. From my experience, most Professional Service articles on Bloomberg are reader submissions or sponsored partnership posts. But take that as you will.


 * The second citation links to Macleans and Lifehacker. Lifehacker is generally considered an unreliable source due to guest posts and sponsored interviews. Also, claims made aren't even clarified in either of the articles cited ("started more than 20 businesses"). The claim he founded or cofounded TheStreet.com is completely unsubstantiated. James started StockPickr, which was bought by theStreet.com, and James stayed on board as a columnist. Saying he "founded or cofounded theStreet.com" is extremely misleading.


 * TechCrunch articles are cited 3 times, and are assumed unreliable as guest posting and submitted stories.

I'll be adding more to this section throughout the day as I have time.

Ahatala1337 (talk) 23:42, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


 * I cut a pile of bad sources and failed-verification sources - David Gerard (talk) 13:19, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * To get past the Bloomberg lock, search the title in Google and click the green triangle next to the link to view the cached version. Џ 04:58, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 December 2018
Jcc "undos" should be undid. Looks like all reliable sources: iTunes for "The James Altucher Show" and the US Chess Federation ratings database for his chess rating. TEDxSandiego for his TEDx talk and Talks@Google for his talk at Google. 64.125.108.8 (talk) 16:02, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: ✔️. – User 45  65  41  19:31, 12 December 2018 (UTC)


 * You may want to read WP:RS and WP:BLP again - David Gerard (talk) 21:07, 12 December 2018 (UTC)