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Alright, thanks for the tip. Benji the Pen (talk) 14:20, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

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Jesus Christos :( I couldn't figure out what I'd done... Benji the Pen (talk) 15:16, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Happy April Fools' Day ;), remember, don't take anything seriously on april fools. --DashyGames (contribs) 15:25, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Bracing myself now :b Benji the Pen (talk) 15:26, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

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Proposed correction in the article on Polaris Consulting & Services Limited

Hello Benji the Pen, This is to request the title change of Wikipedia article VirtusaPolaris to Polaris Consulting & Services Limited . The article is wrongly titled currently. I suggested edits on VirtusaPolaris page but there is no response by editors.

Since KhaasBanda had moved page 'Polaris Financial Technology' to 'VirtusaPolaris' on 18 August 2016‎, so requested him for edits here. There are no changes so far

Please visit the Talk section of the page to review the suggestion details & take appropriate action.

FYI - I've recently joined VirtusaPolaris & is new to Wikipedia Pratin Ashtekar (talk) 17:19, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

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so that the references are produced here, rather than the bottom of the page.–CaroleHenson (talk) 19:14, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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	Excellent work on George Crocker - that is a major expansion! Edwardx (talk) 17:30, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Neat, thank you very much! It was an enjoyable topic to expand, so thank you for creating the stub in the first place, or I never would have discovered it. Benji the Pen (talk) 17:48, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

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Hello Diannaa, no worries - some of the information I added was taken from the George Crocker page verbatim, I apologize for letting any copyvio slip in. Looks like the content I built myself was mostly kept, so I'm very excited about your cleanup. Thank you! Benji the Pen (talk) 19:13, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

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BlackRock

Benji, thanks for all the work you are doing on BlackRock, but: what's this stuff about "In 2013, Fink remained chairman and CEO of BlackRock..." and "It also remained headquartered in New York City." etc? Are these supposed to be interesting facts? Do you mind if I delete them? Wildfowl (talk) 18:43, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Wildfowl, if you feel something I added is trivial, feel free to delete away. In some cases, I just needed a relevant fact to anchor a good newspaper reference, but of course extra references could be moved to the 'further reading' section heading instead. Benji the Pen (talk) 17:08, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Benji, I've just edited the History section of BlackRock again. We seem both to be working (in slow motion) on that same area. I think we should co-ordinate our activities from now on by discussing proposed changes in the talk page. I will put an initial entry in there to start with. Wildfowl (talk) 18:45, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

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Additional Info for "Proposed correction in the article on Polaris Consulting & Services Limited"

Hello Benji the Pen, Thank you for your comments on 'correction request' for VirtusaPolaris article

I just noticed it & want to provide additional information to help clear confusion regarding the same request.

These sources can throw some light,including industry news & the company's 'About Us' section available at: Business Standard News , Polaris FT About Us Page & current VirtusaPolaris About Us Page

You can find details on the initial request for correction here to review the suggestion details & take appropriate action. Pratin Ashtekar (talk) 09:16, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for your article about the historic building. I reviewed it from the Special:NewPagesFeed. Unfortunately, most of the content was a copyright violation, either because it was a direct copy-paste from the source - or words were removed in a few places, but what remained was the same words, same order as the original source.

Rather than nominate the article for deletion, I removed the copied content and applied a template to have the earlier versions hidden.

Please see WP:Close paraphrasing for information about paraphrasing content. There's also a really cool tool to look for duplicate content, https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/ - you just need to add the article title and hit submit. All the content that is in a red-rose shading appears in both the source and the article.

If you have any questions, please leave me a message. I'll do a little work on the article in the meantime.–CaroleHenson (talk) 19:13, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Nifty tool. The content was copied straight from old content on the Pacific Stock Exchange, thanks for cleaning it up. Benji the Pen (talk) 09:54, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Edits to CDM Smith company page

Hi Benji the Pen. I'm reaching out to you for help in editing my company's page--CDM Smith. I work in the marketing and communications department and have submitted additional information and corrections, along with citations. I would like an editor to review and possible make them. Not sure if you are the best one to do this or if I should be following a different process. I would appreciate any help or guidance. Thanks!

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Cheers! WikiEditCrunch (talk) 09:39, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

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Retitle of VirtusaPolaris page to Polaris Consulting & Services Limited

Hello Benji the Pen, I am working with Virtusa. I understand Pratin Ashtekar (ex-employee of Virtusa) was in touch with you for correcting the title of the VirtusaPolaris article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtusaPolaris) to Polaris Consulting & Services Limited.

The article still is wrongly titled as VirtusaPolaris. Please retitle it to Polaris Consulting & Services Limited. Kindly visit Polaris’ website (http://www.polarisft.com/about-us/about-us.asp) for more details pertaining to the name of the company Richagaur 19 (talk) 08:44, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Retitle of VirtusaPolaris page to Polaris Consulting & Services Limited

Hello Benji the Pen, I am working with Virtusa. I understand Pratin Ashtekar (ex-employee of Virtusa) was in touch with you for correcting the title of the VirtusaPolaris article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtusaPolaris) to Polaris Consulting & Services Limited.

The article still is wrongly titled as VirtusaPolaris. Please retitle it to Polaris Consulting & Services Limited. Kindly visit Polaris’ website (http://www.polarisft.com/about-us/about-us.asp) for more details pertaining to the name of the company Richagaur 19 (talk) 08:44, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Retitle of VirtusaPolaris page to Polaris Consulting & Services Limited

Hello Benji the Pen, I am working with Virtusa. I understand Pratin Ashtekar (ex-employee of Virtusa) was in touch with you for correcting the title of the VirtusaPolaris article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtusaPolaris) to Polaris Consulting & Services Limited.

The article still is wrongly titled as VirtusaPolaris. Please retitle it to Polaris Consulting & Services Limited. Kindly visit Polaris’ website (http://www.polarisft.com/about-us/about-us.asp) for more details pertaining to the name of the company Richagaur 19 (talk) 08:46, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Helo Richagaur. I believe since you have an account, you can do it yourself too. Under the "more" tab by the star, there should be a move function. Benji the Pen (talk) 17:37, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

As far as I understand Wikipedia guidelines, i should not change the tiltle on my own as I am working for the company (conflict of interest). Please help us change the title.

Straus National Bank

Hello.

I just recently took a look at your recent articles about Straus National Bank and Trust Company and Continental Bank and Trust Company. Both are a great start, but there appears to be some confusion cause by similar sounding but very different legal entities.

It appears that Simon William Straus had formed two different legal entities, the Straus National Bank & Trust Company of Chicago (an Illinois regulated company) and the Straus National Bank & Trust Company of New York (a New York state regulated company). I am not sure if one is a subsidiary of the other or they just happen to have identical owners and directors, but are legally independent companies. You may need to dig deeper into the archives of both the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times and possible also the New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, and/or Wall Street Journal to straighten out this mess. You may need to use their full names in articles to avoid confusion (i.e., "...of Chicago" and "...of New York"). Simon W. Straus had lived in both Chicago and NYC.

When was Straus National Bank & Trust Company of New York formed? When did it ceased to exist? When was Straus National Bank & Trust Company of Chicago formed? When did it ceased to exist? The answers to these questions are needed to be included in the articles.

Are you sure that the American National Bank and Trust Company that was formed in 1933 is the same legal entity that had formed the American National Corporation in 1968, which First Chicago Corporation later bought in 1986? Illinois had very strict bank ownership laws after the 1929 Stock Market Crash and resulting bank failures. Can you find evidence that the two companies are the same one? (If you do, just include it in the article(s).)

In the past, it was not uncommon for banks in different states to have similar names since many states did not allow interstate banking and few did not allow cross-county branching. In some states, banks could adopt a name of a defunct bank in the same area after waiting a period of time but had to use different logos and symbols and buildings.

I hope you can rewrite both articles to clear up the apparent confusion. It might also help if are able to include enough quotes from the subscription restricted newspapers would help other editors spot apparent discrepancies, such as how the merger of two banks headquartered in New York affect the status of an Illinois headquartered bank prior to 1986 when Illinois first allowed out-of-state ownership of banks. Thanks. -- 68.50.32.85 (talk) 00:33, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Wonderful research! I'm delighted you've taken an interest in these pages, as I'm sure they'll benefit from your careful attention to detail. I would hope you might bring up some of your points on the Straus Bank talk page, as the confusion may be a recurring theme with other editors in the future. You're right in that many of these banks are similarly named or have the same names in different cities, and the old timey newspapers can be infuriately vague about which is which. I'll take your advice about quotes from articles behind paywalls to heart, as sometimes they are very short columns where that would be easy. Note that past the 1930s merger, I haven't done much research on this entity at all. I doublechecked about the rest of it, however, and in this case, "M. L. Straus," an executive during the name change in 1933, is mentioned here in this book as a affiliate of founder Louis Straus: https://books.google.com/books?id=9ZcpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA348&lpg=PA348&dq=M.+L.+Straus&source=bl&ots=8jTemFtFN9&sig=Jl05Us3QNLKsvi4Nd9GfTcOEjfY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiT0I_P7bvXAhUo34MKHaxKC-IQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=M.%20L.%20Straus&f=false This confirms the 1933 name change is tied with the Chicago entity. The New York TImes articles on the Straus absorption a few years earlier don't confirm which city that Straus bank is in, so further research would be needed to clarify if they happen to be different entities. Benji the Pen (talk) 15:34, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

I would like to complement you on your quick response. I am glad to see that you are an editor who is willing to strive for accuracy and quality and not just quantities of poorly-written new articles released.

When dealing with pre-digital newspapers, we need to remember who were their target audience during the time in question. For the New York Times view of the world during the early 20th century is probably very similar to the world view of The New Yorker in 1976. (i.e., unless specified ,the topic of the NYT article during that time period most likely occurred in one of the five boroughs)

Simon William Straus died conveniently in 1930 just before his main company S.W. Straus & Company was charged with fraud when it became insolvent. Straus was the president and founder of both Straus Banks. They might have been several more banks of the same name located in different states. There appears to one in Pittsburgh that had opened a few months after the NYC bank, and the NYC bank had opened a few months after the Chicago bank. Straus may have planned to run a shell game, but it is hard to tell since he had died just after the banks opened. S.W. Straus might be an interesting subject for a new article. You might take a quick look at the section of James Grant's book about S.W. Straus.

• Grant, James (1994). Money of the Mind: How the 1980s Got That Way. Macmillan. p. 166. ISBN 9780374524012 – via Google Books. S.W. Straus, which gradually slid into questional practices...

I might have found something about the Straus National Bank NY, but I can't read it. It appears that the NY bank had opened a few months after the Chicago with similar officers and S.W. Straus president of both.

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/57568758/

October 18, 1928

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York · Page 21

New question. When did German-American Bank changed its name to Continental Bank of New York ? If it was after 1895, then Horace Henry Baxter could not been a director for the bank that is the subject of the article, unless German-American Bank had acquired an earlier Continental Bank. Very confusing. -- 68.50.32.85 (talk) 05:21, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the research, I'll go through it at some point I'm sure. I've added some NY Times articles that hopefully iron some of this out, although I haven't looked into S.W. Straus at this point. Benji the Pen (talk) 17:34, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

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Broadridge Financial Solutions

Hi Benji, I realize you may not be watching this page at the moment, but I had noticed that you contributed to the Automatic Data Processing article early last year, and I am working on an adjacent article: the ADP spinoff Broadridge Financial Solutions. The current article is very poor, so the company has hired me to propose a better version. Because of my COI, I won't edit the page directly, but I've had some trouble getting editors to look at the draft. I figured I would try you, given your prior experience on this and other financial subjects. If you're curious, here is my alternative draft, and I have posted a longer explanation on the article's talk page. If you happen to see this and the request is still open, I'd be interested to have your thoughts. Best, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 13:45, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

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