Talk:Alan Feinstein

Copyvio (posted from here)

Almost all of the text in this bio was copied from two sources: the March 2004 article in The Providence Journal and the Feinstein Institute page on the Roger Williams University School of Law website. It needs serious copyediting. — Athaenara ✉ 05:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Biography assessment rating comment

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 18:24, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Ad

This currently reads like an ad. No proper claim for notability is cited. His own web page is cited. Collect (talk) 11:52, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

I share Collect's concerns about the article; I'm not convinced that the person is notable...the establishment of a charity and the talks at schools might give some notability (but it depends on how notable the charity itself is—I don't know a lot about how charities work—just as someone can be notable for being the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers but not for being the lead-singer of his friends' garage band), but the rest of the article gives me the impression that he's just a guy with a lot of money (and his coverage in the NYT about buying the contract, IMO, is kind of WP:ONEEVENTy).

But Alansohn is a very experienced article creator/improver, so I would give this at least two or three days to see what he can do with it before I think about doing anything drastic. I think the establishment of charities and the awards he's gotten can probably establish notability if we get enough information on that stuff, so it might mostly be a matter of ensuring that the tone of the article is appropriate. Politizer ^talk/_contribs 13:15, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. At this point, at least I added cites for his stamp "promotion." I dounbt his notability -- a man who gave $100 million on the spur of the moment to MIT gets one paragraph, and he has a genuine c.v. ten times Feinstein's, and this man is made to be Mother Theresa <g>. Near as I can figure, he tried to get Brown to come down $2 million on the price of naming a building after him (his net donation ended at $7,000) and getting several school districts to name schools after him for $1 million (which he furnishes by using "donations" sent to his foundation <g>). Oh what Madoff's article would look like if he had such friendly editors <veg>. Further details if asked for by email ... Collect (talk) 13:20, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

The article, as it existed was awful, but it does make a number of claims of notability surrounded by a tremendous amount of puffery. I have restructured and reworded portions of the article. I have added a few sources, but I agree with Politizer's assessment that none of them are drop-dead affirmations of his notability. There is a mention above of a newspaper profile, but I have been unable to find one where the entire text is available that covers him and his background, but I will search further. Alansohn (talk) 13:23, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

One view would be that he made money through slightly inaccurate sales of "collectibles", and now is leveraging a not-very-large pool of money into getting himself a slew of brass plaques. Many of his "grants" are "matching grants" and require "permanent naming" of facilities after him. His c.v. otherwise is quite un-notable indeed, and his "books" are also un-notable ... see reviews <g> for his "Four Treasures" (apparently no sales reported?) on amazon.com [1] noting especially the wording of the "rave review." <g> Then "How to mMake Money" ranked barely in the top 5 MILLION books (26 pages -- but a "book"? ) ... "I Can Make a Difference" no sales. Other books do not even hit Amazon as having ever been sold (no ranking at all). Found 1 copy of "Triumph" on ABE - vanity publisher. So using "writer" for notability fails quite quickly. We are left with a promoter who leverages quite modest donations for all they are worth to get to be known as "philanthropist." Collect (talk) 14:06, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

An IP ran through deleting all the sourced material -- if this is iterated, the prod tag should be restored (sigh) Collect (talk) 22:15, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

IMAX

I believe the date for the start of the IMAX agreement is wrong. It is not 2003, but around 2000.  ??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.106.242.150 (talk) 05:38, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Alan Feinstein/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

This article is quite biased. People have tried to correct this by pointing out that Mr. Feinstein made his money selling collectibles of questionable value, and that he is a publicity hound, but someone seems to come along and remove those edits. I think it should include that information and be rewritten to be balanced, and then frozen. See The Providence Journal expose at http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo_20040321_asf21.25b49b.html for more information.

Last edited at 13:02, 3 June 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 07:00, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Alan Feinstein. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080827204717/http://www.texasphilatelic.org/resources/journals/2006/mayjune06.pdf to http://www.texasphilatelic.org/resources/journals/2006/mayjune06.pdf
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20081120085125/http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/statistics/pdf/09_top50_aa/2005/ri_05.pdf to http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/statistics/pdf/09_top50_aa/2005/ri_05.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 15:50, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Alan Feinstein. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://archive.is/20110728095949/http://media.www.thejusticeonline.com/media/storage/paper573/news/2006/08/29/News/Settlement.Reached.In.Naming.Dispute-2250086.shtml to http://media.www.thejusticeonline.com/media/storage/paper573/news/2006/08/29/News/Settlement.Reached.In.Naming.Dispute-2250086.shtml

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 09:56, 19 September 2017 (UTC)