User talk:MJRathbone

Hi MJRathbone, I was specifically looking at Apple Computer when I moved the info to the end of the article, but the general idea is that when someone looks up a company, they're more likely to want to know what the company does, than who's on the board of directors, or a list of some sort.

As far as the who's who list of current and former employees, every single Fortune 500 company would have a long list of former employees that moved on into government (or vice versa). There are 535 people in house and senate, another 50 in the cabinet or heads of agencies, and 50 governors. Put that together, and add in the fact that these change every 4 years, and you've got thousands of notable people, and documenting them all would mean lots of rather useless lists for every fortune 500 page. Put another way, how could one use the information of a list of people that used to or currently work at the company? You can't, really, it's just trivia. See WP:LC for more discussion. Agreed, my comment was terse and Lee Raymond is not a small player, but he is also mentioned in the article under CEOs.

I've added ExxonMobil to my watchlist, and I'll help to nip useless commentary on the article and the talk page in the bud before it blows up.

What did you mean by MoS? Pro crast in a tor 06:47, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. Okay, I'll bite for now on list of notable people. BTW, MoS = manual of style.--MJRathbone 20:25, 26 August 2007 (UTC)