Talk:William R. Wilkerson

Opening comment
Removing obviously false rags to riches hyperbole. The chances of someone making their first stock market investment on black friday are tiny. That they could lose every dollar and then found a magazine is impossible.

I reverted back to the original text and cited source. The story, as grandiose as it may seems actually occurred.HumanisticRationale (talk) 05:25, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

copy-and-pasted block
A large chunk of this article has been copied and pasted between Bugsy Siegel, Flamingo Las Vegas, and William Wilkerson. As far as I can tell, it wasn't copied and pasted from some outside source — Google doesn’t find an outside source anyway — but being copied and pasted in these three places poses a problem for future editors, since any improvement that can be made to that text probably ought to be made in all three places. But that's ① labor-intensive, ② error-prone, and ③ unlikely to happen since there’s no way to tell that there are other copies of the text.

Is there some Wikipedia policy about what to do about duplicated chunks like this?

Further discussion about this should go to Talk:Bugsy Siegel, since I’ve copy-and-pasted my comment on the talk pages of all three articles.

Kragen Javier Sitaker (talk) 18:58, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Serious issues
This article has serious sourcing issues that need to be corrected, entire controversial sections without inline references. The existing sourcing is dubious. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 16:56, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Wilkerson's financial recovery?
The article tells about Wilkerson's indomitable entrepreneurial spirit, but a pivotal portion of the story is missing. Right now, the article says that: "On Black Tuesday, October 29, [1929] Wilkerson walked into the New York Stock Exchange at ten in the morning with the intention of doubling his money and hightailing it to California. Forty-Five minutes later the market crashed and a dazed Wilkerson wandered out of the building without a dime to his name. Undaunted, he packed his wife, his mother and their few belongings and motored cross-country to Hollywood. There, on July 26, 1930, he formed the Wilkerson Daily Corporation." His new corporation engaged in successful ventures leading eventually to lofty accomplishments, but since the money he'd lost in the 1929 crash was partly his own and partly borrowed, how would he (without a dime to his name) have handled credit problems that might have cropped up - i.e., how did he raise money for his new ventures of the summer of 1930? Details like this, even if handled with just a few words, are crucial in any biographical story about a businessman.Joel Russ (talk) 19:30, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 2 one external links on William R. Wilkerson. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20071004235107/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com:80/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000845239 to http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000845239
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20071009101949/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com:80/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000845237 to http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000845237

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