Ganjadi

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One of the most important things for a newcomer to read is our three-revert rule. If you don't know this you could easily get blocked and that's not the way you want to start your career as an editor.

I agree with your short addition to Federal Reserve System, by the way. Making clear exactly who these shareholders are is important. Yworo (talk) 13:59, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately, there is probably little that can be done unless those involved break the three revert rule I mentioned earlier. Although one editor did actually do that and got let off with a promise to stop. First time I've seen that happen, usually they would have to self-revert their last revert or get at least a 12 hour block for that sort of behavior. I suspect some of the editors are employed in the financial system in one way or another, though not necessarily at the Federal Reserve or a member bank. All the big players benefit from the system-as-it-is, so there can be a big gang of editors for the status-quo without any of them technically being in violation of the conflict of interest rules. I jump in every once in a while to try to make an edit, but I find the articles on Gold as an investment, Silver as an investment, Exchange-traded fund and related articles to be easier to edit... Oh, and I like to keep an eye on the G. Edward Griffin article as well. Of course, there is no article on The Creature from Jekyll Island, it simply redirects to Griffin's article. A previous attempt to create it was put up for deletion and quickly deleted. If you think you can find several "mainstream" reviews or otherwise meet the notability requirements to write an article on the book that's deletion-proof, I'd be happy to help you. Yworo (talk) 02:22, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Federal Reserve article

Just as a comment, your most recent edit comment [1] says that "although the third paragraph said the US Govt is NOT a shareholder of the Federal Reserve stock, it never mentiond who the shareholders actually ARE: these are the member banks. this=an essential fact". This is true, but it's also misleading. The lead is a summary of the article - it's not everything. The article does go into detail about that in the Structure section. Also, the edit you made is not exactly correct. You're making the common mistake of confusing the "Federal Reserve System" and "Federal Reserve Banks". The Fed (the system) is made up of multiple parts, one of which are the Federal Reserve Banks. Those are owned by the member banks and pay out the 6% dividend. It's not the System. I'm adjusting and reverting some of your edits on this basis. Ravensfire (talk) 15:36, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

I've made the change in the article lead to the unique structure statement as per my suggestion on the talk page. Just wanted to make sure you were aware of the change. I'm still not sure about the second area of concern - at this point I'm leaving it open, waiting for any thoughts from you on this. Ravensfire (talk) 15:42, 13 July 2010 (UTC)