Talk:Wendelin Wiedeking

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Circumstances of resignation

It would be useful if someone who knows could fill us in on the circumstances of his resignation. I can't work out if he fell because he was a pawn who ended up on the wrong aside in a high level piece of quasi-Medieval rivalry between the descendants of Ferdinand, or simply gambled with an attempt to purchase VW and got his timing horribly wrong. And/or something else/both. But as it is this entry (and indeed the German language equivalent) looks curiously incomplete... Regards Charles01 (talk) 15:14, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality

"'No risk, no fun' is my motto," he has said." and so many other instances of this article being written as an adulation of the subject make me question if I should either trash out 70% of it or hope that someone with knowledge about the Wiedeking as a manager and also his dismissal by Porsche in 2009 will take the time to make this an NPOV article... I don't know all the boardroom shenanigans and financial operations, which let to his dismissal and therefore rather not get involved in this article; but the current praise is a) badly written and b) not neutral at all and therefore needs a major rework. noclador (talk) 12:27, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On the other hand, I don't like the fact that it makes no mention of how he committed financial fraud whilst the head of Porsche that nearly sank the company, thus leading to his dismissal.

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV

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Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 14:50, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

removed "Dr." title in 1st sentence of intro paragraph

I removed "Dr." from "Dr. Wendelin Wiedeking" in the first sentence. It is uncommon to use someone's academic title outside of academic institutions/in their field of research in English-speaking countries. I see that this also seems to be the practice in English-language Wikipedia, including for German persons (even though in Germany it is common to use the academic title outside of academic institutions), see for example Angela Merkel. An exception to the "Dr." title restriction academia/research in English-speaking countries may be for medical doctors, but I even see for medical doctors, English-language Wikipedia leaves out the title, see for example Sanjay Gupta. Result: I removed it.

If anyone disagrees or knows of any Wikipedia rules/practices that I may have overlooked, please feel free to discuss. --Nytewing07 (talk) 11:33, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

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It has a picture, so it's start class. However, it needs to be expanded and an infobox would be helpful. Green caterpillar 00:17, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 00:17, 8 September 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 10:23, 30 April 2016 (UTC)