Talk:Blackstone Inc.
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Requesting updates to financial figures and Leadership section
Hi, I'd like to suggest a few factual updates to this article, all of which are supported by either Blackstone's 2020 annual report or by the Blackstone website (per WP:ABOUTSELF). Pinging Sdrqaz and Fences and windows who were recently active here, in case either of you has a few minutes to spare to implement this.
- Lead section: In the second sentence of the second paragaph, update to: As of 2020, the company's total assets under management were approximately US$619 billion.[1]
- Infobox:
- Key people: Remove Byron Wien, as he is the vice chairman of a specific division at Blackstone (Private Wealth Solutions), not of the company as a whole. (Source)
- Revenue: Update to: US$6.102 billion (2020)[1]
- Operating income: Remove this parameter, it is not a metric we use/report. (And it doesn't make much sense to continue displaying the number from the old 2017 annual report.)
- Net income: Update to: US$2.262 billion (2020)[1]
- AUM: Update to: US$619 billion (2020)[1]. Also, remove the number for "real estate AUM" as this is just one component of the total AUM - reflecting just one of Blackstone's multiple business segments.
- Total assets: Update to: US$26,269 billion (Q4 2020)[1]
- Subsidiaries: The companies listed here are not subsidiaries - they are a small selection of the many hundreds of companies in which Blackstone has invested over the years. In light of this, please remove the entire Subsidiaries parameter.
- Leadership section: The source for the following updates is the "Our People" page on the Blackstone website:
- Remove J. Tomilson Hill from both the Executives and Board of directors subsections, as he left Blackstone in 2018 and is no longer a board member.
- Remove Bennett J. Goodman from the Board of directors subsection, as he is no longer a board member.
- Add the following two names to the Board of directors subsection:
- Reginald ("Reg") J. Brown: independent director
- Joseph Baratta: member of the executive committee
References
Thank you, ThomasClements Blackstone (talk) 13:43, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- Hi ThomasClements Blackstone, Section has been updated.Imcdc (talk) 12:07, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
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GA Reassessment
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- Result: Delisted. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 10:39, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
The article suffers from quite a few things: there are buzzwords in the lead(4), the investments are an extremely long list (1b), cn tags / occasional use of unreliable sources, many one-sentence paragraphs. Will need significant work to remain a GA. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 13:23, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
- Delist. Without even looking into the sources, it's disqualified by the fact that it's mostly proseline and excessive lists. And I don't enforce this because I've yet to see a community mandate to do so, but I personally consider a criticism section to be a layout and NPOV issue in most cases. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 16:48, 11 February 2023 (UTC)