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[edit] Page Blanking and Redirect vs. keeping as separate article

This article should be kept as is. For one thing, it is an article and not a list. The article is about the banks that have been seized by the FDIC in 2008. That is far different from banks that have been merged, acquired, or filed for bankruptcy protection. It is a very specific class of banks. Read up on the subject please!

Further, there would need to be sources showing that each of these banks were seized as part of the subprime mortgage crises in order to be merged into the article about the subprime crisis. Some of these banks quite possibly failed because of bad management, separate from the subprime crisis.

Finally, merging is not the same as blanking and redirecting. If consensus, after discussion, is to merge this article into List of bankrupt or acquired banks during the subprime mortgage crisis, then the referenced content in this article needs to be moved there, along with a separate table of the FDIC seized banks, since they are an entirely different class of animal than banks merged, acquired, and filed for bankruptcy. Thanks for discussing this here. ~ priyanath ^talk 03:48, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Why isn't there a page for 2009 when we've have 14 failures already? --Selfish Gene 2009 (talk) 23:12, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Dups on Sept 4th

87 and #93 are duplicate (Vantus Bank, Sioux City, IA)
91 and #86 are duplicate (InBank Oak Forest, IL)
90 and #85 are duplicate (First Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, MO)
92 and #88 are duplicate (Platinum Community Bank, Rolling Meadows, IL)

Pls fix ( as I do not know the exact procdedure ) Cosmicray (talk) 00:49, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] A "recount" is requested

I just posted the failure of San Joaquin Bank (based in Bakersfield, California) which was taken over on Friday, October 16, 2009--yet my Associated Press sourced article stated that this was "the 99th failure this year of a federally insured bank (in the U.S.)." [1] By Wikipedia's count, it is the 103rd U.S. bank failure this year; do we need a recount? Take care. ProfessorPaul (talk) 16:40, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Recount fixed! I double-checked the duplicates (see discussion above) and removed them; now Wikipedia's count matches the Associated Press count. As of October 16, 2009, there have been 99 U.S. bank failures. Take care. ProfessorPaul (talk) 16:50, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Who just cleared the 2009 list? It's not "vandalism" if it's verified one bank at a time. Chadlupkes (talk) 23:06, 4 November 2009 (UTC)