Wait a Second, Isn’t Wikipedia Supposed to be All Knowing?

I am currently reading the book “Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst” about, maybe you guessed it, a Wall Street analyst named Dan Reingold, and what was going on around him during the late 90’s early 00’s dot com/telecom bubble and eventual crash. One of the main protagonists of the book is Jack Grubman, former telecom analyst for Salomon Smith Barney, who accepted a lifetime ban from the securities industry and paid a $15 million fine for his involvement in the mess.

The book is a good read if you’re interested in the world of business, especially to get an insider’s view of Wall Street, but that’s really not the point of this post. Being a geek of many flavors - business and history among them - oftentimes I Wikipedia some of the events, people, or places after watching a movie or reading a book to gain a little more perspective on the situation. Yeah, I said I was a geek. Sometimes I’m interested seeing how much the book or movie diverged from the actual historical events. In this case, I was interested in finding more about Jack Grubman, to see how closely he resembled the devil spawn that he was portrayed as in the book.

Unfortunately, this is what you get when wiki’ing Grubman. A nonexistent page. Ok, not everyone is important enough to have their own page on Wikipedia. Considering his role in the tech bubble and the fact that he’s a main character in not only this book, but a host of articles about the era, and it seems strange that he doesn’t exist on Wikipedia. Especially since other, arguably lesser players in the crash like Mary Meeker and Henry Blodget, have personal Wikipedia pages.

Maybe there is a reason for it. But while a patiently wait for his wiki, I can always attempt to join his LinkedIn Network. The maybe I can ask him myself.