650:" In the midst of a flurry of activity at the very high end of the market over the last few weeks comes a contract signing, finally, on 870 Park Avenue, a nearly 12,000-square-foot town house that Benny Shabtai, an Israeli businessman who spent decades leading the watchmaker Raymond Weil's distribution team in the United States, put on the market seven years ago. The contract signing came after the listing changed hands among three of the city's top-selling brokers, undergoing a series of price changes that took the original $ 23 million asking price in 2004 to a high of $ 33 million in 2008, to the last asking price of $ 24.5 million. Streeteasy.com showed that the contract had been signed on May 13. The buyer will be getting a four-story mansion -- the facade was designed by Robert A. M. Stern -- with six bedrooms, six baths, a four-passenger elevator and a 1,150-square-foot office with a separate Park Avenue entrance...."
547:. Having already went to Reliable Source noticeboard to ask about Forbes recently, I have a very good understanding of what they are. The Globes entries are routine business news, and are not about him specifically. Of the 18 on the article, about 13 or 14 are related to his business. One of them is his wedding video, ref 4, and is non RS. Ref 18 is not even causily linked, it is some other person, who is a member of the society. Ref 9 is another video on vimeo, non RS. Ref 18 is the front page of the FIDF, doesn't mention him at all, so non RS. 14 is dead. 13 is dead. Ref 12 is about Viber being sold, and is a name drop only. Ref 10 doesnt detail anything about him.
556:. The practice in Knowledge which has been consistent, is to delete, when the article is so extensively promotional that the promotionalism cannot be removed without extensive rewriting, when the work needing to be rewritten goes beyond the normal editing, compared with the usual removing of a sentence here or there. The tone of the article is clearly promotional, and a complete rewrite would be needed. The article was submitted by an undeclared paid editor.
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No I did not realize this. The remarks - like yours below - were just a "general observation." If you took them personally, please forgive me. At the same time, I think your tone in working to delete this article is overly aggressive. Still, I am always glad to know that there are people who take
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