Talk:David and Frederick Barclay

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Contents 1 Photographs? 2 Gotek? 3 Split 4 Handbag.com

[edit] Photographs?

There are some pictures of the Barclay brothers in BBC's profile of them at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3407799.stm (http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39754000/jpg/_39754913_barclay_203.jpg and http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39752000/jpg/_39752563_barc_203.jpg)

Is it inappropriate to attach these pictures to the article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.68.173.84 (talk) 02:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Gotek?

The (current) fourth paragraphs starts "By 1962, they started redeveloping old boarding houses in London and making them into goteks". What is a gotek? I can't find a relevant match in Google, and it doesn't appear to be a standard english word ... The linked BBC profile article says "Then, in the 1950s and 1960s, they became property investors, buying boarding houses and converting them into hotels."

I can only assume that gotek is a double-typo for hotel, so I'm changing it :-) --YojimboSan 03:56, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't think we can count Ian Paisley as a neutral reference on Catholicism. Secretlondon 23:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Split

This article is about two people - David and Frederick Barclay. I think there should be two articles. I would like to know the view of other users. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 14:12, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I think it should be kept as a single article until substantial information separating the two is found. The Jade Knight (talk) 09:47, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Handbag.com

"In October 2006, the Barclays sold handbag.com for £22 million. This was almost all profit: they set up the website in a joint venture with Boots in 1999." What did they sell? the domain name or the entire business. Clarity possibly needed--91.84.84.234 (talk) 20:39, 3 April 2008 (UTC)