Talk:Nick Woodman

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POV Problems

Parts of this article (early life and first half of career) read like they were written by GoPro PR, and other parts (second half of career) read like they were written by angry laid-off employees. There were pretty bad problems with POV/vandalism in the past (ex. https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Nick_Woodman&type=revision&diff=757308687&oldid=757308674), so this seems to be an ongoing issue. The second half of the career section needs the most help. I don't think "he commissioned a yacht, then cut all these jobs, then got sued, and was finally named worst CEO" is what should be there. I removed a particularly problematic sentence ("anything other than a string of failures"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhessela (talk • contribs) 15:13, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

The Career section certainly contains extraneous details which apply more to the company and less to Woodman as a CEO. Although success can be attributed to some of a leader's initiatives or direction, it is not one and the same. Woodman's actions or public statements with sources should be kept, but the Career section needs to be trimmed down and organized by GoPro, Public Appearances, Shark Tank with the GoPro section being applicable but balanced.--Penguino35 (talk) 21:28, 14 July 2020 (UTC)Penguino35

"edit request"

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1. Add 3 new paragraphs to the intro. New intro would read as follows.

Nicholas D. "Nick" Woodman (born June 24, 1975) is an American businessman and philanthropist. Woodman is the founder and CEO of GoPro.

After graduating from the University of California, San Diego in 1997, Woodman founded two startups including an e-commerce website called EmpowerAll.com and an online gaming company called funBug.com. While neither of the companies was successful, Woodman remained passionate about pursuing a career as an entrepreneur.

In 2002, Woodman founded GoPro following an international surfing trip where he had the idea to create a wrist based action camera. In the following years, Woodman went from selling wrist-based 35mm film cameras out of his 1971 Volkswagen Bus to leading GoPro, a household brand name and producer of versatile action cameras.

Woodman resides in Woodside, California, with his wife Jill and their three children.

2. Revise last sentence in Early Life and Education to be more factual, objective. New sentence would read as follows.

Nick received a $235,000 investment from his father, an investment banker in Silicon Valley, to launch GoPro.

3. Add sentence to end of Career section. New sentence would read as follows.

During the same year GoPro launched a trio of new products - Hero5 Black, Hero5 session, Karma drone.

4. Edit removed per note below.

5. Add GoPro logo to the top of the article.

References

Justin Goldsborough (talk) 17:30, 17 August 2017 (UTC) Justin Goldsborough

Multiple RS sources confirm that Woodman commissioned the yacht. Do you have RS sources that provide a different opinion? Dialectric (talk) 18:25, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Removed edit 4 referencing the yacht per your edit. Justin Goldsborough (talk) 20:38, 31 August 2017 (UTC)JustinGoldsborough

@Dialectric: Is there any additional information I can provide to help with this edit review? Also, added a new edit for consideration (edit 5) Justin Goldsborough (talk) 03:25, 21 November 2017 (UTC). Justin Goldsborough (talk)

• Comment: Declining to add File:GoPro_logo_NickWoodman.jpg to this article because the way it's intended to be used does not comply with Wikipedia's non-free content use policy. Each use of non-free content is required to satisfy the ten non-free content criteria listed in WP:NFCCP. In general, non-free content use is required to be contextually significant to the the reader's understanding per WP:NFCC#8. If this logo was being used in an article about the company or product it represents, then it would make sense for it to be used as the primary means of identification at the top of such article. In this case, however, just adding it to the top of an article about the founder of the company does not come close to meeting NFCC#8. The only way the non-free use of this logo might possibly be used in this article would be if it was itself specifically the subject of sourced critical commentary in reliable sources., and such content was added to the article.

Other than the above, if the file's licensing was public domain or a free license, then could used in the desired way. The former, however, requires an assessment as to whether the logo is below the threshold of originality for the United States and the later requires the explicit consent of the original copyright holder. IF you want opinions on the former, ask for assistance at WP:MCQ, but care needs to be taken with the latter because once a file is released under a free license it cannot be revoked/cancelled at a later date.

Finally, please just do give the source as "GoPro represenattive" for the file; if it can be found online, then provide a link as the source so that it's copyright status can be verified. Moreover, please do not uploaded any more non-free files unless they can be immediately added to an article. Non-free content is only allowed to be used in articles per WP:NFCC#9, which means it can't be used on talk pages, and non-free files are required to be used in at least one article per WP:NFCC#7. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:36, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Im closing this request template, as the most recent request appears to have been answered.  Spintendo  ᔦᔭ  03:54, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Proposed update regarding Charitable Giving

Although the foundation hasn't disclosed all of its contributions or philanthropic work, they have disclosed that they spent "$4 million last year to help build a community center in Montana, and $2.85 million in 2015 to help a child abuse prevention center in San Francisco." As stated in Zombie philanthropy: The rich have stashed billions in donor-advised charities — but it’s not reaching those in need . The request for a statement from the Washington Post article was an opportunity to disclose these expenditures, and even though it wasn't comprehensive, it should be included here.

Penguino35 (talk) 23:35, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Seeing there is no discussion or dispute after 4 days. Will make edit regarding the donation amounts and cite source above. If there is a better source or need to edit - please discuss here. Thank you.--Penguino35 (talk) 19:45, 3 July 2020 (UTC)