Talk:Mark Zuckerberg

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Short description: American businessman and philanthropist (born 1984)

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This article has been viewed enough times to make it onto the all-time Top 100 list. It has had 77 million views since December 2007.

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Net worth conflicting information

The main article says he has a net worth of $111 billion. The box on the side (sorry, I know you all have a wonderful name for it, but I don't know what it is) says he has a net worth of $99.6 billion and both give "September 2020" as the date for the estimate. Which is it? 82.15.132.29 (talk)

MSincccc I did not want to start the GA review yet but I have some comments for improvement. Currently his net worth is quoted for a given day, I think that is good. However, he is listed behind several others. This list changes often and it is not particularity notable that the list had those members in that order on that day. I would remove the list and just leave it at "the fourth".

Arie Hasit's incorrect claim

Arie Hasit claims Zuckerberg's "FaceMash" put pictures of two males OR two females next to each other, but Zuckerberg said UNDER OATH during questioning that it was in fact "girls" whose pictures were being used this way.

GAN

Well I have significantly contributed to upgrading the article's quality. Furthermore, I am one of the article's top five authors and one of its all-time top editors. This fact coupled with my extensive knowledge about the article's subject has led me to nominate it for GAN today. I hope the others are not against my nomination. Regards and yours faithfully, MSincccc (talk) 08:38, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Philanthropist" in the first sentence of the lead

Per the arguments I laid out in WP:PHILANTHROPIST, can we move this out of the first sentence of the lead? While I have no doubt he has made donations of various sorts and this has received coverage, it is not his primary claim to notability, nor is it WP:DEFINING, making it inappropriate and WP:UNDUE to weigh it equal to his status as a businessman. It is also a non-neutral term, meaning it can only be used when the majority of the sources use it - and most of the sources in the relevant section of the article do not; they merely state that he has made donations. Characterizing them as philanthropy in Wikipedia's voice ascribes intent in a way that most sources do not. --Aquillion (talk) 03:15, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is true that philanthropy isn't the main thing Zuck gets noted for. However, I wouldn't go so far to call that adjective "a non-neutral term". The term doesn't inherently suggest someone is a good/bad person. You also appear to be imposing your own criteria for when to use it by treating your essay as a policy or guideline. Regardless, removing it from the opening sentence is fine, but not because of neutrality issues. The more relevant factor is how it's less prominent than his business endeavors. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 03:53, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Philanthropy

MSincccc "The money was largely wasted, according to journalist Dale Russakoff" - This is a POV claim. Is it actually notable, why should the reader care what this journalist thinks? It seems like the article should be making a non-POV claim detailing how the money was actually wasted. Is the thought here that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is responsible for capturing that? Czarking0 (talk) 06:06, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congressional Hearings Section is Missing Info

Libra

Is the congressional hearings section meant to be exhaustive? The way it is currently written gives the impression that those are all the times he testified before congress but the Libra testimony is missing Czarking0. If it is not meant to be exhustive what is the criteria for inclusion? It seems like any congressional hearing would be notable for a CEO. More sources:

Monopoly

he has also been questioned about monopoly/anti-trust law which is not covered https://neguse.house.gov/media/videos/rep-neguse-questions-mark-zuckerberg-facebooks-monopoly-power

(talk) 06:05, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FWD.us Ads

This sentence "in protest of Zuckerberg ads funded by FWD.us" does not make sense in context. What is a Zukerberg ad? The reader, myself included, has no idea. Maybe they are ads supporting Zuckerberg? Or written by him? Czarking0 (talk) 00:23, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Politics Proseline

The Politics section of the article is WP:Proseline I recommend creating subsections around the topics of note and expanding upon them. Czarking0 (talk) 00:30, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]