Talk:Robert Rubin

New book and website

Greetings, I have a small edit request for this page. Mr. Rubin recently published a new book and launched a website. I am hoping someone will consider adding the website, robertrubin.com, to the infobox and External links section.

For the book, I suggest adding the following sentence to the Other work section, immediately after the mention of his first book, in the same paragraph:

Rubin's second book, The Yellow Pad: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World, was published in May 2023. In it, he writes about his approach to "probabilistic thinking", or understanding that every decision carries risk. References

Please let me know if there any questions. As always, I won't make any changes myself due to my conflict of interest. WWB Too (Talk · COI) 20:52, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

These are both reasonable edits and should be part of the article. For style and clarity, I created a new “Books” subheading and added the language about the new book to it. I’ve closed the edit request as both requests have now been addressed. Go4thProsper (talk) 14:21, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, Go4thProsper, I appreciate it! Best, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 10:59, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

@Go4thProsper: Re-opening this, sort of, because I realized later using the Wikidata property for the URL might be preferred, and also it uses the HTTPS protocol, which definitely is. What do you think of replacing the existing URL with {{URL | {{Wikidata|property|Q370316|P856}} }}? If that's too fussy, would you be willing to modify the HTTP to HTTPS? No rush, but curious what you think! WWB Too (Talk · COI) 13:37, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Rubin website

The current URL for robertrubin.com in the infobox is given as HTTP, not HTTPS, which I now realize is the preferred protocol. One way to do this (which I think would also be good Wikimedia hygiene) is replacing the existing URL with {{URL | {{Wikidata|property|Q370316|P856}} }}. Alternatively, it might just be easier to change HTTP to HTTPS. Also, his website is not currently listed under External links, so I'd appreciate it if it could be added there as well. Given my financial COI, I'll refrain from making any direct edits, and I'm hopeful another editor will take up these suggestions. WWB Too (Talk · COI) 18:06, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

 Done. What does the alternately proposed property|Q thing do anyways if it was to be done that ways? Graywalls (talk) 19:17, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, Graywalls! Had you used the code, it would have tied that field to Wikidata. So if it was ever changed in Wikidata, the field would update automatically. Best, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 19:52, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

A few small updates

Hello again to all who watch this page; I have some requests for some minor updates to the article.

First, Mr. Rubin's book The Yellow Pad was included on Bloomberg's "Best Books of 2023" list. I think that is noteworthy enough for inclusion in the Books section, such as a new final sentence like:

• The book was named one of the "Best Books of 2023" by Bloomberg News.

Second, I was hoping to update some "as of" dates to reflect Mr. Rubin's continuing activities, both in the introduction and in the Other work section. Specifically, updating the latest year Mr. Rubin has been active with the Hamilton Project, Council on Foreign Relations, and Centerview Partners to 2024. I must note, there is no third-party sourcing saying he is still doing these things in 2024, but my thinking is this: the "as of" date for the Hamilton Project is already supported in part by a citation to the organization's website, so I believe this could work for the other two and, by updating the access date for Hamilton Project, perhaps then we could update the "as of" year? Like so:

• As of 2024, Rubin is involved in the Hamilton Project, an economic policy think tank he co-founded in 2006. He is co-chairman emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.

• Additionally, Rubin serves as a senior counselor at Centerview Partners, an investment banking advisory firm based in New York City.

And then with those updates made, this would also allow an update to the last sentence of the introduction, changing "As of 2022" to "As of 2024".

References

N.B. The WSJ source is already in the article, I just included the full citation here for visibility.

@Spencer: @Graywalls: @Go4thProsper: you have all fairly evaluated my edit requests here previously. Would one of you be able to take a look at this? WWB Too (Talk · COI) 16:04, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Update: The Bloomberg book information has now been added. However, for anyone else coming across this, the question about updating the "as of" dates in the introduction and in Other work from 2002 to 2004 has not yet been discussed. I'm looking forward to hearing what some others think. WWB Too (Talk · COI) 14:25, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Done Encoded  Talk 💬 07:20, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Simple grammar fix?

Recently, an infrequent contributor made a good-faith edit to remove what I assume they thought was a redundant word. In fact it was not, and the sentence is now ungrammatical. I would undo or fix it myself, however as I have stated before, I am a consultant to Mr. Rubin and will not make direct edits to this article. I am hopeful another editor will make the change. Encoded, tagging you as the most recent editor to answer an edit request here. Thanks in advance, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 17:59, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Done Encoded  Talk 💬 11:24, 10 September 2025 (UTC)