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Vanity?

He sold the F1 according to http://moschus.livejournal.com/81449.html

This article reads like Elon wrote it himself, vanity and all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.21.41.109 (talk) 20:57, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

An anonymous writer changed B.S. in Physics to B.A. in Physics under education. I have never known physics to be a B.A. degree, but does U. Penn. do it differently? Dschmelzer 15:54, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Does he really have a B.S. in Physics from Penn at all? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.177.197.119 (talk) 18:46, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Is Elon Musk Jewish?

Elon is a Jewish name. Could he be Jewish? What is his earlier history?

Well? Is he? Being South African with a name like Elon Musk, I would say there is a 90% chance that he is Jewish. Why doesn't someone ask him? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.159.9 (talk) 01:44, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

His religion is irrelevant to the article. Petershank (talk) 19:01, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

It is not irrelevant to his biography. Religion is a commonly marked subject on[REDACTED] biographies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.139.41.17 (talk) 09:14, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Philatrophy

This is definitely not related in the article. This topic was just made up and something put under it. Delete the heading ? --Dtox 15:53, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Citizen of?

Can we call him a South African-America.. or American or Canadian-American etc.. what are his citizenships? -- Stbalbach 04:15, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

According to this, he's a naturalized American citizen. Not sure if he retained South African citizenship though. --Josh Atkins 17:35, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

I've added the South African part of him into the intro. (Gryffindor (talk) 23:37, 29 October 2009 (UTC))

Donations to Misplaced Pages?

Does anyone want to look and see his donations to wikipedia? I see a recent one for $1000, and I'm sure there are more.--72.132.52.138 05:54, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

That's great (cheers Musk), but I don't think it would be appropriate to mention it in the article. -- Stbalbach 13:46, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Birthday?

We have had two versions of his birthday: June 28 and November 7th (both 1971). Which is correct? --Stbalbach 21:03, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Anon editor User:66.163.20.125 removed the reference to Nov 7th from the article (it said "Born Nov 7th or June 28th"), so I assume this editor on good faith knows what they are talking about. -- Stbalbach 12:32, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation

How do we pronounce "Elon"? ► Adriaan90 ( Talk ♥ Contribs ) ♪♫ 17:41, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

• On 60 Minutes on October 5, 2008 they pronounced his name like the Israeli name, Ilan. -NYC2TLV (talk) 00:23, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Tesla Motors

i am far from an expert on Mr. Musk but i wonder at the lack of detail on Tesla Motors. Does he own it? What is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.118.89.222 (talk) 16:41, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

This section is factually incorrect. Mr. Musk was one of the initial lead venture capitalists behind Tesla Motors, but he did not found the company. Tesla was founded by Mark Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard. A quick check of the Tesla Motors wiki page referenced with both Mr. Tarpenning and Mr. Eberhard's pages seems to confirm this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.135.134.34 (talk) 22:24, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

controversy?

martain's forced resignation, Elon's taking credit, etc. it all should be in the article. TrevorLSciAct (talk) 18:15, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, it is done. And to spice things up, there is also the memo leak entrapment plot. - Jacob Poon 20:36, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Chess master?

I think he is.--Jrm2007 (talk) 09:14, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Educational credentials questioned

The founder of Tesla motors has sued Elon Musk. Interestingly, the complaint states that Elon Musk lied about attending graduate school at Stanford and a second degree in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Here a link to the complaint:

http://openaccess1.sanmateocourt.org/getpdf/pdftemp/200906101523474407/A-0000081554-1.pdf

If these allegations are true then perhaps a section outlining this controversy should be included in the article, certainly the legal battle itself has become international news.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/11/eberhard_v_musk_tesla_lawsuit/

Note: I see someone already beat me to the punch, so the only question is whether we should modify his educational background and mention the allegations of actively lying about them?

Lordvolton (talk) 20:38, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

I added some additional information regarding the complaint against Elon Musk. We should probably remove the false educational information if we can independently verify it was in fact a lie.

Lordvolton (talk) 20:49, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Also, the article states he received a B.A in Economics from Wharton, check out Undergraduate degree program: http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/about/facts-and-figures.cfm . I believe it should be a B.S —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.144.45.76 (talk) 01:49, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

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