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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:

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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?

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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.

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Hello Benji the Pen, This is to request the title change of Knowledge (XXG) 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.

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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.

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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!

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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).)

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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As far as I understand Knowledge (XXG) 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.

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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 (

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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 (

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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 (

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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

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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.

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The article still is wrongly titled as VirtusaPolaris. Please retitle it to Polaris Consulting & Services Limited. Kindly visit Polaris’ website (

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The article still is wrongly titled as VirtusaPolaris. Please retitle it to Polaris Consulting & Services Limited. Kindly visit Polaris’ website (

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The article still is wrongly titled as VirtusaPolaris. Please retitle it to Polaris Consulting & Services Limited. Kindly visit Polaris’ website (

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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.

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status of an Illinois headquartered bank prior to 1986 when Illinois first allowed out-of-state ownership of banks. Thanks. --

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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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Material you included in the above article appears to have been copied and closely paraphrased from the copyright web page

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

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These sources can throw some light,including industry news & the company's 'About Us' section available at:

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formed? When did it ceased to exist? The answers to these questions are needed to be included in the articles.

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If you have any questions, please leave me a message. I'll do a little work on the article in the meantime.–

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