Talk:Mark D. Kingdon

Renaming to common name (removing middle initial 'D.')

One has to laugh at the pedantry of the comment just below. The Internet is not the source of all informatiion on the planet. A simple check of web sites such as www.ancestry.com and U.S. Search.com show that Mr. Kingdon's legal name is Mark David Kingdon as showm by his birth certificate and census records. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Editor Greenville (talk • contribs) 18:46, 11 December 2014 (UTC) From what is visible on the internets, the middle initial "D" (article title) is not the correct Common Name and was not used by the media or either of the two companies where Kingdon was CEO, nor by the press . I removed the D to match what the current correct usage seems to be, but that change was reverted when some unsourced content about birthday was reverted. Based on the movenotice guidelines, i will be bold and correct this article to the common name.

You are a moron if you do not think one's birth certificate shows one's legal name in contrast to some flimsy files in a human resources department. Furthermore, this is a "stub" because Mr. Kingdon and his buddies have made sure that almost no details of his past are allowed to remain in this profile. He has steadfastly removed all mention of his initial fine arts degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He attended UCLA for two years afterwards. He has not mentioned that he grew up in Greenville CA, a town of 1000 people with no stop lights. He always claimed he was from a ritzy family in Marin County. Nice try.

He got listed on Wikkipedia only as a PR entry when he was working at Organic and just maintained the profile while continually eliminating anything he did not like. That is the trouble with Wikkipedia....they allow subjects to control their own bios and just eliminate anything they don't care for.

There is considerable doubt that Mr. Kingdon's achievements warrant any mention on Wikkipedia. There are thousands of investors in Internet start-ups and he isn't even listed among the top 850. Would he be listed in the top 8500 or the top 85000? Let's see the proof.

Jm3 (talk) 00:04, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

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The following is an archival copy of Mark *D* Kingdon's "Bio" from the corporate website at Organic. Since this information is no longer posted on their site, it appears that Mark has stepped down as CEO of Organic. I am posting it here, on the Talk-page in hopes that those with better understanding of Wikipedia's policies and procedures can properly attribute the quote.

Personally, it doesn't seem well documented, and I haven't attempted to veirfy ANY of the contents of the quote iteself. It seems a bit of a puff piece, as it was a corporate biography of a company's CEO.. but perhaps if the information can be verified, this can serve as a "starting point" for fleshing out the wikipedia entry. Particularly useful looking, is his educational background.

Mark Kingdon

CEO Mark Kingdon has served as Organic's Chief Executive Officer since 2001, and has led the company to its current position as a leading digital communications agency. Since joining Organic, the company has doubled in size and acquired several Fortune 500 clients such as Bank of America and Geek Squad, a division of Best Buy. Organic has also been recognized as a "top ten" interactive agency by AdAge Magazine and a Web Design Agency Leader by an independent research company. Mark is a frequent industry spokesperson on trends in digital marketing, customer relationship management, social networking and consumer empathy. He is frequently quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and top advertising publications. He is also a regular speaker at many industry conferences, including AD:TECH, the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, eTail, and Forrester. Mark is regularly featured in the UBS/Organic quarterly investors call and newsletter. Additionally, he's a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and of the International Academy of the Digital Arts and Sciences, where he serves as a Webby Awards judge. Mark brings valuable insights into the management of both large and complex professional service organizations and entrepreneurial companies. Most recently, he worked with idealab!, providing strategic guidance and operational support to emerging companies. Prior to joining idealab!, Mark was a partner with the consulting division of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP (PwC), where he held a variety of senior roles throughout his twelve-year tenure. He received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business, and a B.A. in Economics from The University of California, Los Angeles. Mark loves Organic because it is the perfect intersection of business strategy, design, and technology - his three passions. When he can, Mark travels far and wide - from the Himalayas to Central America and he still finds time to doodle, paint, and draw.

Note: For the record, I had to manually transcribe this to text, as the original source was embedded in a flash interface on the Organic website. (http://www.organic.com). The data WAS able to be referenced by clicking "About Us" and then "Bios". Since they've removed the information from their site however, you'll have to take my word for it. The text above may be subject to copyrights, so any actual quotations published should be properly attributed.

Moved from the disambiguation page. Zebragrrl 11:46, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

07 July page protection

Ola. There are a number of very new accounts with no edits other than to this article that have been having a slow-motion sterile revert battle. I've semi-protected this page, so please use the talk page (this one!) to discuss desired edits. Users can also request edits to any semi-protected page by proposing them on its talk page, using {{Edit semi-protected}} to get attention. Please note that that template will add this page to a monitored list, so you might get more attention than you perhaps wanted. Easy like sunday morning,
Aaron Brenneman (talk) 13:56, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Sources

I have concerns about the sources in this article. First (like the giant header says) it's about a real-life person, so the encyclopedia (if I may use the pathetic fallacy as a rhetorical device) gets its knickers in a serious twist if articles about real people don't have good sources. The blue words in the pink box at the top of the page are required reading, in other words. Now moving from the general to the specific:

1. http://angel.co/markkingdon

   Corporate-ish website? *shrug* Not worth much in terms of general sourcing unless there are strong supporting facts. (E.g. Sure, "Nike.com" is a corporate website, but as it's probably highly viewed it has some hint of reliability, as if they wrote (for example) "Our shoes are made in Oregon" then that falsity would quickly be made public.)

2. "140 Proof Closes $2.5 Million Series B Funding Round, Press Release", 2011-04-28, Retrieved on 2011-06-19.

   First, it's a blog. See "Nike" comment above. Secondly, this is a blog post about itself... debate-ably a primary source. So not a reliable source for anything other than the most basic and otherwise boring facts.

3. "Fab.com Investors", Retrieved on 2011-06-19.

   And again.

4. McCarthy, Caroline. Linden Lab selects Mark Kingdon as new CEO, CNet, 2008-04-22, Retrieved on 2009-07-04.

   This is a reproduction of a press release, typical high-churn online content. Normally considered reliable with respect to totally non-controversial facts. I think this is a safe source, but cannot be relied upon for purposes of the general notability guide that determines if articles are "important" enough for inclusion.

5. Names New CEO, Press Release”, 2000-12-13, Retrieved on 2011-06-19.

   Deadlink. Not an issue in the longer term, but I am unable at this time to use the usual methods. WP:DEADLINK might be of some help.

So overall what's missing is coverage in, well, anything meaningful. Surely someone somewhere has written about this person other than on a website he's partly funded?

Aaron Brenneman (talk) 14:15, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

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