Talk:risk management

RFD discussion: April–June 2006

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Risk Management

sum of its parts. --EncycloPetey 07:22, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

• Strong keep. This is a very large field of endeavor. There are huge organizations that work in it, and insurance is technically a subfield of risk management. - Taxman 20:14, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
• Yes, keep - but what is the difference between the two definitions? SemperBlotto 21:39, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Nothing really. Funny enough, the second meaning is a copy of the definition I added to the Wikipedia entry 2 years ago, and it has been unchanged since. - Taxman 00:14, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
  • The second is the field that studies the first. It might be a keeper if moved to the capitalized page. Davilla 04:56, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

    I don't understand. Why should it be capitalised? Enginear 06:52, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

    Good question. I only noticed that in the second definition it already is. But should it be? Davilla 17:33, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

    Sorry for delay -- I had a hard disk crash and am only back online today (due I suppose to my poor personal risk management practices in that I had no recent backup and had to get my data recovered). No it shouldn't be capitalised. As Taxman says, the capitalisation is simply carried over from the first mention in the pedia article. I work closely with a risk management department and, like T, can see no difference in the defs: "the process of measuring, or assessing risk" is a simple definition of risk assessment and the rest follows.

    It is a commonly used phrase in engineering, insurance, etc with a formal usage which is more specific than would be expected, so keep. I'll add to my to-do list to find some refs and remove one of the defs if no one else gets there first.

    Have now tightened up the defs (removing one) which also meant improving the definition of risk and a few other words, and have added quotes --Enginear 12:34, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

    By a strange coincidence, the deputy head of our risk management dept died suddenly, and quite unexpectedly, yesterday ... if his dept turns out not to have had a succession plan, etc, to deal with the eventuality, their reputation will be somewhat diminished. Widespread and important though risk management is, it is odd that I have two immediately personally relevant examples to mention. Enginear 03:10, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Note: "Sum of it's parts" is always an invalid argument for deletion. Confer: the Pawley list. --Connel MacKenzie T C 05:24, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep — Hippietrail 21:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

rfd already removed. Andrew massyn 18:23, 10 June 2006 (UTC)