Talk:The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

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Hello! I created this page a few days ago, in July. Hopefully, Alex added some references. Please expand this page; it might be marked as a stub.

Thanks, Michael (MHLU)

About section unacceptable

This page is a great start, thanks to all. This section though:

"Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha.”"

This must be a direct reprint- if not of the book jacket then from some site talking about it. Even if not, it needs to be cleaned up; this is THE Wikipedia, after all.--Hawkian (talk) 01:58, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Major rewrite

I removed two major sections and trimmed the rest. This was due to copyright issues and the presence of trivia, too many examples when 1 would do better, and other quality issues. I also made some minor changes like removing the unnecessary {{redirect}} tag. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 04:37, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Citation

I have placed a citation for when Buffett and Schroeder met ten years ago, and the book was written ten years after that. Is the information in the article suffice? MHLU^talk 00:42, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

I fixed up the words to match the reference. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 03:41, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Minutiae

There is some minutiae. Is it okay if users expand this article including their references? MHLU^talk 17:00, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

As long as you don't go overboard, see WP:UNDUE. WP:UNDUE is mostly about undue weight of minority viewpoints, but the spirit holds true for the project as a whole: More important articles should have more details than relatively unimportant ones. Having said that, if this thing grows to 30-60KB it would benefit, not hurt, the encyclopedia, providing you can keep out trivia and excessive direct quotes from other sources. Also, some material that might appear to be related to this book might be more related to the author or to the general subjects the book covers. Use your best judgment, if it needs to be moved later, it can be moved. You might want to look at WP:GOOD and WP:FA for other articles about non-fiction books to use as models for any expansion of this article. Also, read WP:ASSESS. If you can get this article up to C-class or even B-class that would be great. Some subjects just don't have enough referenced material to rise above start- or C-class but given the author this one should be. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 20:08, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Use this book as a reference

This book describes many companies that have lacking Wikipedia articles (among others, GEICO and Salomon Brothers). If anyone has the time, this book is highly referenced and would give a great base for the improvement of articles such as these. -M.Nelson (talk) 05:23, 20 January 2009 (UTC)