Talk:David and Simon Reuben

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Two things - First, this seems to be more about the Ken Livingstone comment rather than about them, is there any way we can include more about them and even what their criticisms of Ken were? Second, the word 'billion' is used here, which I assume to be an American billion, so I have changed this to use figures (thus removing ambiguity). DavidFarmbrough 09:51, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Billion" was taken from the Guardian profile, and the brothers have regularly been described in the UK press as "billionaires". I don't think any papers in the US have covered the brothers or their flap with Livingstone. I'm happy with either rendering, though. I am going to remove the sentence about their dealings in Iran, since this was only one of many countries in which they did business, and as presently placed it suggests that their business interests are what Livingstone was referring to. The BBC, The Times, and all over coverage has suggested he was simply telling them to "go back to [their country]", as the BBC puts it, so it would be more appropriate to swap in a sentence stating that Livingstone was incorrect and they are not from Iran, but for now I'll just remove the present sentence and not put anything in its stead. Babajobu 13:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Splitting the article[edit]

No matter how closely they work, it's a tad ridiculous that the two have a single article between them. They are each billionaires by themselves, which ought to justify separate articles. That's ignoring that they were born three years apart and went into different industries (Simon is the 'property czar', David the 'metals czar'). I see no reason not to have this article too (or, rather 'Reuben Brothers') for their collective achievements, but to have separate articles for their personal accomplishments, which are many. Bastin 16:51, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Jews and Judaism/WikiProject India[edit]

So they are Baghdadi Jews who were born in India. So what? I don't see any reason to have the Jews and Judaism template in this page since it mentions absolutely nothing about Jewish religion or culture and their contributions to it. They are competent businessmen and including them in templates about billionaires and such is fine, but unless they've actually made some contribution to Jewish thought or culture like Maimonides or Theodor Herzl why include them in the Jews and Judaism project? Ditto for the Wikiproject India inclusion? They have as much to do with India as Vivian Leigh did (she was also born in India). So why include them in WikiProject India when they've made all their money in the UK —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.199.177.246 (talk) 16:19, 2 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Needs a cleanup[edit]

The quotes have had the look of champions, and people might not know much about them have been removed, this article has been cleared up and is important to many business journalists like myself

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Reuben Foundation[edit]

2012 The Reuben Foundation launched the Reuben Scholarship Program providing hundred's ...hundreds ...if you are functionally illiterate, stop trying to write an encyclopedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.189.24.219 (talk) 11:08, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Merger proposal[edit]

It is proposed that Reuben Brothers be merged into David and Simon Reuben. Request at OTRS 2016071910020794 . There is quite a lot of overlap of the two articles. It is felt that one article will suffice. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 17:34, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Major contributor" tag[edit]

The article has had a "major contributor" tag at the top since 2016, but I can't see any evidence of recent activity, and the earlier copyvio edits were removed a long time ago. Any objections to the tag being removed now? Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:55, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In both number of characters and number of prose characters, the two known COI editors seem to have contributed about 60% of the article, according to page statistics (they're #1 and #2 on both lists). Though this may not be recent activity, it's data as of the current version of the article. For this reason, I would oppose the tag's removal. The article is certainly still in very poor shape and needs a lot of improvement. — Bilorv (talk) 20:26, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough... thanks. Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:58, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Just want to affirm that the article still reads very suspciously. Transfo47 (talk) 18:17, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to make any changes you think are improvements, and if anyone disagrees we can discuss them afterwards (WP:BRD). — Bilorv (talk) 21:02, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]