Talk:Mary Schapiro

Active politician?
The parameter on the template says this is an active politician. To me, federal independent agency commissioners are not active politicians in the sense that they are not running for office or in an elected office, and the parameter should be no. Should I change it? --DThomsen8 (talk) 12:19, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Not having any response to the above comment, I changed the template to activepol=no.--DThomsen8 (talk) 17:47, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Recommend chairperson changed to chairman —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.83.85.139 (talk) 21:02, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Suggested edits and potential conflict of interest disclosure
Disclosure of potential conflict of interest. I am using the guidelines offered on WP:SCOIC. I am Mark Story, the director of new media at the Securities and Exchange Commission. My purpose in suggesting edits to this page is to provide a more complete view of Chairman Schapiro's tenure at the SEC. As it stands, the last mentioned item is from 2009. I wish to keep the article fair and balanced, and I have cited every entry that I have made. I am happy to dialogue about any of the edits.

At the beginning of the entry, I would like to provide more background on how Mary Schapiro became Chairman. I request the following addition:

Mary L. Schapiro is the 29th Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Chairman Schapiro was appointed by President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009, unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and sworn in on January 27, 2009. She is the first woman to serve as the agency’s permanent Chairman.

Storymsecgov (talk) 16:41, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I have made the requested change, to the extent that the above information appears in the article. It was unclear if you were requesting it be placed in the lead section; if so, per WP:LEAD, please note that this section is an overview, and should not be contain relatively minor details.


 * I also note that we do not prefer government websites and government documents as sources. (Details: WP:RS). For example, we would much rather have a NYT or Washington Post article as a source (citation/footnote) for Shapiro's confirmation by the U.S. Senate than her SEC biography. In the same vein, we do not consider it appropriate to have a speech as an item in the External links section; I've removed one of these. (If this were acceptable, the EL section of people who give a lot of official speeches would contain hundreds of items; that's obviously pointless. And Wikipedia has no process to decide which are the relatively few, most important speeches.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 02:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Recent changes to the article
I don't have any problems with most deletions to the article (I didn't add the text that was deleted), but I recommend that this be put back into the article:


 * In June 2009, Bernard Madoff, in an interview done by the SEC inspector general David Kotz, said that Mary Schapiro was a "dear friend," although she "probably thinks, 'I wish I never knew this guy.'". Kotz said "there was no evidence that Mr. Madoff had a close friendship with Ms. Schapiro."

Both sources cited are clearly reliable; the information seems of some importance to readers; it's not given undue length. Whether or not Madoff's claim is "innuendo" or not (if I understand the edit summary that removed this text) is irrelvant; that's not a criteria for Wikipedia articles. (WP:BLP requires good sourcing for contentious material, which is the case here.)

I do recommend a bit more information; the Washington Post article says "Schapiro, previously head of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, had already faced criticism because that agency also missed Madoff's fraud." That's relevant context, so perhaps something like:


 * Shapiro was criticized because FINRA failed to detect Bernard Madoff's fraud. In June 2009, Madoff, in an interview done by the SEC inspector general David Kotz, said that Schapiro was a "dear friend," although she "probably thinks, 'I wish I never knew this guy.'" Kotz said "there was no evidence that Mr. Madoff had a close friendship with Ms. Schapiro." -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:02, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
 * In other words, when you are up, she is with you; when you are down, she doesn't know you. How spineless. Angry bee (talk) 02:45, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

agree --5.170.212.118 (talk) 22:09, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Faith
She is mislabeled Jewish by sources incorrectly because of her last name. She is attends Episcopalian Church, see http://www.stpatsdc.org/news/detail/index.aspx?linkid=6883&moduleid=55 and http://www.columba.org/newsletter/3.15.12_NL_CaptainKirk_Web.pdf --Monstermike99 (talk) 20:55, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

External links modified
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External links modified (January 2018)
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Proper spelling of name elsewhere in WP
We should periodically check this link to see if Schapiro's name is incorrectly spelled as "Shapiro" in other articles. We should also make sure to not confuse her with separate people named Mary Shapiro, such as the journalist in Missouri or the political candidate in Minnesota. KConWiki (talk) 16:32, 8 May 2021 (UTC)