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I see a Notability template at the top of this article, suggesting that James Altucher may not meet the notability guidelines. I would say that James Altucher is well known as an investing commentator, so he is as notable as many well known journalists. Just don't try to claim that he is actually a good investor. As the article states, he lost virtually all of the $15 million he started with in the late 1990s. That's not the sign of a good investor; that's the sign of a phenomenally bad investor. -- JHP ( talk) 21:00, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
In this blog post on Quora, James describes how he got the job at HBO---it doesn't sound like it was his first. -- StefanVanDerWalt ( talk) 11:45, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
This piece reads like a fan site. It repeatedly uses the term "currently..." as if information that is one or more years old is somehow current. The two references I checked are both incorrect (either broken or contradict the assertion made in this piece)*, meaning a 100% error rate based on the sample. Is it acceptable to have an undated reference listed? If so, it shouldn't be, imho. Specifically, I checked reference #14 (Level One) which had NOTHING about him (on that page) and #30 (CNBC) which had 1 hit in the last year (as of 7/25/14) and NOTHING for the last 180 days, thus contradicting the claim that he is a frequent contributor. Note to editor: using "new", "current(ly)", "recently", "this year", etc. in an article in a reference work is foolish and will certainly mislead the reader (eventually). *When I attempted to annotate those references, I was unable to locate them (due to my ignorance in what {reflist|2} means)...If someone else wants to take the task on, go for it! 173.189.73.1 ( talk) 06:55, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
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Just did a reference check. Most of the sources are primary or non-RSes. The whole thing comes across as an advertisement. Will be culling thoroughly in a few days strictly to claims in third-party RSes, per WP:BLP - David Gerard ( talk) 11:56, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
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why are you deleting the link to the yahoo finance writeup on him? Cyberwonka ( talk) 23:46, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
As other users have noted throughout the past on this talk page, this article seems to be written as a self promotion, has various unreliable sources and uncited claims.
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Jcc "undos" should be undid. Looks like all reliable sources: iTunes for "The James Altucher Show" and the US Chess Federation ratings database for his chess rating. TEDxSandiego for his TEDx talk and Talks@Google for his talk at Google. 64.125.108.8 ( talk) 16:02, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
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I see a Notability template at the top of this article, suggesting that James Altucher may not meet the notability guidelines. I would say that James Altucher is well known as an investing commentator, so he is as notable as many well known journalists. Just don't try to claim that he is actually a good investor. As the article states, he lost virtually all of the $15 million he started with in the late 1990s. That's not the sign of a good investor; that's the sign of a phenomenally bad investor. -- JHP ( talk) 21:00, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
In this blog post on Quora, James describes how he got the job at HBO---it doesn't sound like it was his first. -- StefanVanDerWalt ( talk) 11:45, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
This piece reads like a fan site. It repeatedly uses the term "currently..." as if information that is one or more years old is somehow current. The two references I checked are both incorrect (either broken or contradict the assertion made in this piece)*, meaning a 100% error rate based on the sample. Is it acceptable to have an undated reference listed? If so, it shouldn't be, imho. Specifically, I checked reference #14 (Level One) which had NOTHING about him (on that page) and #30 (CNBC) which had 1 hit in the last year (as of 7/25/14) and NOTHING for the last 180 days, thus contradicting the claim that he is a frequent contributor. Note to editor: using "new", "current(ly)", "recently", "this year", etc. in an article in a reference work is foolish and will certainly mislead the reader (eventually). *When I attempted to annotate those references, I was unable to locate them (due to my ignorance in what {reflist|2} means)...If someone else wants to take the task on, go for it! 173.189.73.1 ( talk) 06:55, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
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Just did a reference check. Most of the sources are primary or non-RSes. The whole thing comes across as an advertisement. Will be culling thoroughly in a few days strictly to claims in third-party RSes, per WP:BLP - David Gerard ( talk) 11:56, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
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why are you deleting the link to the yahoo finance writeup on him? Cyberwonka ( talk) 23:46, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
As other users have noted throughout the past on this talk page, this article seems to be written as a self promotion, has various unreliable sources and uncited claims.
I'll be adding more to this section throughout the day as I have time.
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Jcc "undos" should be undid. Looks like all reliable sources: iTunes for "The James Altucher Show" and the US Chess Federation ratings database for his chess rating. TEDxSandiego for his TEDx talk and Talks@Google for his talk at Google. 64.125.108.8 ( talk) 16:02, 12 December 2018 (UTC)