Talk:Vitol/Archives/2020

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Jhertel in topic Update of Company Figures

Update of Company Figures

I am a representative of Vitol, and I am looking to update the following figures and points on this page which are out of date or inaccurate. I would like to run the changes I want to make past the Wiki community before I make any changes, in line with Wikpedia's COI policy.

- Removal of 'mining' from intro para- Vitol's products can be found on their website here: [1]. Mining is not part of the portfolio.

- Updating figures (2016) - Vitol's most recent figures (published March 2019) can be found here: [2]. I would like to update the figures for Naphtha, LPG, Power and Coal to reflect Vitol's most recent numbers.

- Ranking 8th of the Fortune Global 500 list- Vitol does not publish it's financials and therefore cannot be listed on the Fortune Global 500 list, but if it did it would be 9th as of 2019.

- Number of employees- The number of Vitol employees is 1365

Antonialock69 (talk) 11:06, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

@Antonialock69: Thank you for being upfront and open about your affiliation, and for the updated information. Regarding your edit, when you change information, be sure to also add the new references for the new information. I can see that you at one place only changed the numbers and the year (to 2018) but didn't change the "vitol.com" reference which is from 2014 and thus cannot be a valid reference for 2018 numbers. In another place you changed one reference to a completely different one, but you left some of the old information in the reference intact (the publisher, as well as the reference ID "oilvoice1", which is also used somewhere else on the page). Please insert a whole new reference and delete the old one if you replace an old reference with a completely different one, so we don't get references that are a strange mix between two references. Also, you didn't state a citation for the $231 billion revenue; please add your source for the new revenue. Furthermore, there is no source given for the quite radical change in number of employees; please add your source there too (it can be added right after the number in the template). In the future, please double-check your work before you commit it so the rest of us don't have to spend time on following up on the missing parts like I did here. --Jhertel (talk) 00:20, 3 January 2020 (UTC)