Talk:Jack McCauley

Charity Work

In this article they state that Mr McCauley gave his dividend from the sale of Oculus to "his favourite charity" but I can't find any specific references to that charity work anywhere. Is this the "McCauley Family Fund"? Bob dvd (talk) 09:06, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

This article in the Berkeley Engineering newsletter confirms the philanthropic gift Jack and his family made to Berkeley under the McCauley Family Fund in Design Innovation. http://engineering.berkeley.edu/2015/07/modern-day-edison-creates-design-innovation-fund

Can you please update your comment? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael B Young (talk • contribs) 19:24, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Puffery

Recent edits to this article seem to me to be substantially more promotional than encyclopedic. I tried to clean them up once but was reverted within a day on some of my edits. Then additional puffery was added, all by an editor using a single purpose account. I've posted a request on the Biographies of living persons noticeboard, here asking for additional opinions from BLP=savvy editors. David in DC (talk) 19:21, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

I've reverted to a version from before that blatant promotion. WP:NOTPROMO. duffbeerforme (talk) 10:32, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi David You have removed correct citations, articles and correctly legal images without reason. You site blatant promotion. I don't know Mr. McCauley. I am not promoting him nor am I paid for this. I've followed his career for ten years now and as well as others of Oculus. You cannot remove correct citations without reason and yet you gave none. Please reverse your current deletion. Thank you. User:MintonBrice 12:22, 03 May 2017 (UTC)

User:MintonBrice: Please review WP:BRD. You've made Bold edits, you've been Reverted by two different fellow editors. The proper response, is the "D" in BRD, discuss. Here. On the talk page. The proper response is not to revert the article to your version a 3rd time. That's edit-warring, a fairly big no-no around here. Please undo your most recent reversion of my edit. David in DC (talk) 16:31, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Recent back and forth on the page has seen repeated reintroduction of unsourced personal information about the subject. Given the recent strong concerns about such issues this reintroduction is simply not on. Source it or leave it out. Also reintroduced is PR, violating Wikipedia's need for a neutral point of view and an absence of promotion. Statements such as "McCauley is passionate about helping young, gifted students discover their full potential" are pure PR and have no place here. duffbeerforme (talk) 10:11, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Oculus

Article claims "McCauley built Luckey's original prototype into a product for the company’s first Kickstarter campaign" [1] states he was hired after the first Kickstarter campaign. Claim is "supported" by two refs. 1 a dead and not in wayback article, lacks verifiability. 2 PR that does not support the claim. duffbeerforme (talk) 12:01, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Constant reverts

Dear fellow editors. Since no progress will ever be made by constant edit warring, I want to state that my edits were made to improve this article and based on references found during deletion discussion (which nobody tried to incorporate into the article, as far as I could see). However, my edits are constantly reverted by User:Duffbeerforme with the same explanation, which I believe is not valid at all. The fact that this user reverts every single edit to the version he/she believes is OK really starts to annoy, because I put a lot of effort to rewrite and filter the content to be as neutral as possible. This user was proven wrong at the deletion discussion, but he/she does the same thing over and over again, without putting into consideration any edits and other users make. I would like the above mentioned user to advise, why he/she thinks these changes are "shill"? What caught my eye is his/her claims that McCauley is not co-founder of Oculus, while there are dozens of sources that explicitly state that he is. Also, I would like an admin attention here, before going to the next level. Lokking forward to your responses. --Plaxie (talk) 13:30, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

I think the advice you got from an admin on my talk page here is on point. David in DC (talk) 21:12, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

@David in DC: I did and that is why we are here. I will seek for community consensus, rather than reverting again, so following BRD. --Plaxie (talk) 21:22, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Apoligies to neutral parties for the late replie. First, my most recent revert. The same unsourced and challenged personal information is being restored. That is simply not on. Given the claims and counterclaims and the personal attacks and threats of legal action such unsourced info should be reverted on sight. Second, on the broader claims made by the latest shill/sock turning this back into a blatant promo piece. Claims of Oculus founding? His current PR says he is, Oculus says he isn't. What's the truth? Sources that discuss the early development say he was hired by an existing company. He claims that although the company existed when he was brought in it didn't really begin until he arrived (ego much). His story and independent story says he was not. Claims that the edits are just introducing sources from the afd. Yes some sources were mentioned there. The majority were not. In amongst others is the same patent spam that shills have repeatedly tried to reintroduce. The weight given to that spam is very telling of the intent of that edit. Truth? Edit reintroduces the debunked claim of the invention of the scrolling mouse, reintroduction of false claims, removal of relevant maintenance tag without addressing the issue. duffbeerforme (talk) 13:26, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 November 2022

Would like to add material related to McCauley's professorship at UC Berkeley. Ashii Madroors (talk) 21:57, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: requests for decreases to the page protection level should be directed to the protecting admin or to Wikipedia:Requests for page protection if the protecting admin is not active or has declined the request. - FlightTime (open channel) 22:05, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Hunting a Billionaire.com

February 2023 March 2023 McCauley made Yelp and Google review postings (https://www.yelp.com/biz/trivalley-landscape-pleasanton?hrid=WNm0Nnuhzzq3a-adAioCvg&utm_source=ishare) about a Landscaping business working on his property saying that the landscaping company "damaged my property, broke my landscape lights, broke my irrigation" and specifically that the business owner called him a "mother fucker". The business owner responded to the claims sharing pictures of the property and the lights, and shared communications between the business owner and McCauley where McCauley said the backyard is "thriving" and where McCauley used profanity and threatened legal retaliation. A second review with racial connotation was left just 10 days later using the same verbiage as McCauley saying the Landscape company "crew of illegals" and "I think he picked them up at Home Depot out in the parking lot" was posted by a new user sharing only a picture of the reviewer. HUNTINGABILLIONAIRE.COM is now asking for the public's help in identifying the individual in the photo 2601:644:4580:9C20:8CAB:18B:12A:6D3C (talk) 16:14, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Extensive revision of apparently false self-promoting claims

In almost every section of the article, claims are made that are simply not supported by the citations or any source of any kind anywhere. For example, the claims that McCauley is a Red Dot Design award winner, that he worked for Nintendo, or that he brought the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2 from concept to production in 120 days.

In addition, many other claims cite very biased sources that themselves have many errors. For example, the claim that he wrote the original USB specification is based only on a press release from Berkley announcing a financial contribution by McCauley, but that same article also incorrectly reports his title and position at various companies, saying for instance that he created the original Oculus Rift prototype in 2011, a year before he even joined the company. Other citations include outlets like Grunge.com (well known for paid advertorial content ) that appear to mimic these incorrect claims in articles about McCauley being one of the greatest inventors alive.

It probably doesn't make sense to nominate the article for deletion, but extensive revision is needed to counter what appears to be a coordinated effort by McCauley to pay for promoted content that widely parrot these new claims that no contemporaneous sources include.

Seismic thrust (talk) 05:35, 7 May 2023 (UTC)