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2021 COI edit requests
This
edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.
Hello! Another 3 years and I'm back again with new COI edit requests for this article:
Chinese government collaboration controversies
Done Add to end of section:
On September 2, 2020, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Chinese activist Ning Xianhua against past Yahoo! executives, including Yang and Semel. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. It alleges that Yahoo! provided Xianhua’s private emails to the Chinese government in exchange for commercial access to more Chinese internet users.[1]
AME (pronounced "ah-meh") has provided funding to more than 50 startups, including Tango,
Evernote,
Wattpad,
Vectra Networks Inc., and Chinese travel site Shijiebang.
(Using the
Parmy ref name already in the article.)
Delete He re-joined the board of Alibaba in 2014.[7] – This isn't germane to the section, and it's redundant with the subsequent list of board seats.
Newsbreak.com
Done Update
Yang and
Jeff Zheng cofounded News Break in 2015. In 2020 they added
Harry Shum as chairman of the board.
to
Jeff Zheng founded News Break in 2015 with Yang in the role of Chief Advisor.
Per the
source: "Founded in Silicon Valley in 2015, with Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang as Chief Advisor"... I also don't think the second sentence re: Shum is germane to an article on Yang.
Replying to myself to note that I just went ahead and made this specific edit, since I believe this line falls under
WP:COIU as a violation of
WP:BLP due to being inaccurate and poorly sourced (in that the source did not corroborate the original text). My other pending requests are still open, but hoping it's OK that I moved forward on this item specifically.
Mary Gaulke (
talk)
21:09, 8 July 2021 (UTC)reply
I believe this is meant to be a subsection of "Career", not a top-level section (especially with the "Board seats" section as a subsection beneath it). It may also may make sense to eliminate this one-sentence section entirely and just add Newsbreak.com (Advisor) (2015–)[8] to the subsequent list of board seats – or just delete it entirely, since it's only an advisor role and not a full board seat. (Swapped in a TechCrunch source instead of the News Break blog post sourced in the article, since News Break is a
deprecated source.)
@
Go4thProsper: Hi! I saw you implemented a few of the items above, which I marked as done. Any chance you'd be willing to take a look at the others? The resetting of the ages of items in the requested edits queue seems to have impacted this request, and I'm hoping we can get it closed before three months have passed. Thanks for your help!
Mary Gaulke (
talk)
14:07, 29 June 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Boredathome101: Thanks for your help! Wanted to check on two items from above, just in case they were missed:
Newsbreak.com: It may also may make sense to eliminate this one-sentence section entirely and just add Newsbreak.com (Advisor) (2015–)[1] to the subsequent list of board seats – or just delete it entirely, since it's only an advisor role and not a full board seat. (Swapped in a TechCrunch source instead of the News Break blog post sourced in the article, since News Break is a
deprecated source.)
One more thing: Yang assumed the role of Chair of the Stanford University Board of Trustees on July 1.[5][6] Would it be possible to add (Chair) to that item in "Board seats"? The 2017 term should also be open-ended, i.e. "2017– ".
Mary Gaulke (
talk)
13:12, 10 August 2021 (UTC)reply
This
edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.
Hi!
Boredathome101 hasn't been on-Wiki for three weeks, so opening a new request for a few small items I think got missed in the last round. (I have a COI: I'm here as a paid editor representing Yang.)
Newsbreak.com: It may may make sense to eliminate this one-sentence section entirely and just add Newsbreak.com (Advisor) (2015–)[1] to the subsequent list of board seats – or just delete it entirely, since it's only an advisor role and not a full board seat. (Swapped in a TechCrunch source instead of the News Break blog post sourced in the article, since News Break is a
deprecated source.)
Done As a founder of Newsbreak, it is significant info, so lets keep the sentence. I will replace the news source. NewsBreak is actually considered an unreliable source by wikipedians.
Boredathome101 (
talk)
00:52, 14 October 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Boredathome101: Thanks so much for your help! Just to clarify – Yang isn't a founder of Newsbreak. This was a misunderstanding of the
source, which states, "Founded in Silicon Valley in 2015, with Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang as Chief Advisor". The source is describing Yang as a co-founder of Yahoo, and I believe that got misunderstood as describing him as a co-founder of Newsbreak. The
TechCrunch source used above corroborates this.
Mary Gaulke (
talk)
12:27, 14 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Board seats: Yang assumed the role of Chair of the Stanford University Board of Trustees on July 1.[5][6] Would it be possible to add (Chair) to that item? The 2017 term should also be open-ended, i.e. "2017– ".
This
edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.
Hi! COI editor for Mr. Yang here. Sorry to post again but I see that
Boredathome101, with whom I was working before, has been blocked from editing. Reposting this unaddressed item from above:
Newsbreak.com: I think it makes sense to eliminate this one-sentence section entirely and just add Newsbreak.com (Advisor) (2015–)[1] to the subsequent list of board seats – or just delete it entirely, since it's only an advisor role and not a full board seat.
@
Valjean: Hi! Saw you reverted my edit re: News Break. I'm pretty confident
Newsbreak (magazine) is a different organization; per that article, it was founded in 2001, whereas Yang's News Break was founded in
2015. It looks like Newsbreak, the magazine, used to reside at newsbreak.com.ph (judging by the references in that article), and now publishes at rappler.com/newsbreak.
Newsbreak (disambiguation) also distinguishes between the two.
Mary Gaulke (
talk)
13:29, 22 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi Mary. For the purposes of this discussion, your COI is no obstacle. It might even mean you are a subject matter expert! I don't know the history of Newsbreak/News Break, and that is my only interest here.
Jerry Yang was not originally an interest of mine. I am trying to fix some links in different places, and any light you can shine on the history of the newsbreak.com domain name will help.
I'm wondering if the domain name was sold or repurposed. That can happen. Currently, it's a deprecated source (not just discouraged, but full deprecation!!) at
WP:RSP. Maybe we should go there and discuss this. I suspect we'll get a lot more eyes on the matter and also get in contact with some editors who know a lot more. I'll start a discussion there, and I'll copy this discussion to start it. --
Valjean (
talk) (PING me)
21:12, 22 February 2024 (UTC)reply