Talk:4Ocean

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Efficacy and Efficiency

This is the most conspicuously branded "environmental organization" I've ever seen. I understand their bracelets are made from recycled materials but where is the rest of their 4Ocean stuff made and how much plastic are they adding to the world through their efforts? Is there any way to determine how much weight in branded shirts, flags, buckets, and other plastic and paint/dye/vinyl/etc. they're creating while pulling one pound of plastic at a time from the ocean? How much energy and carbon is released in the creation of these bracelets as well as shipping them around the world? Is this a net-zero or worse contribution to the problem theyre ostensibly trying to solve?

I've contacted the company for comment but have received no response.

a.p.n

Contested deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because... (I am adding more reference to it) --Iqbalmarium (talk) 23:40, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

You have to rewrite this draft from scratch because in its current form it sounds like an advertisement for the company. Plus 44 percent of the draft is copyrighted (see here. If you do not address these 2 issues quickly it will be deleted and you'll have to start over .JC7V-constructive zone 23:44, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Interesting Engineering source

This Interesting Engineering article is a piece of native advertisement. On top of the obvious promotional tone and the final "Via 4Ocean" text, it uses repeated links to the 4ocean site with an URL shortener that leads to a 4ocean URL including tags to track a campaign called "SWIntEng". This is common practice when paying for promotional articles at blogs. Based on this, I'm considering this source neither reliable nor independent. --MarioGom (talk) 14:01, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Written Like an Advertisement

I am embarking on a clean-up of this article to fix or remove the promotional aspects of it. Any input or discussion is welcome here! Paisarepa (talk) 19:58, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

In addition to changing promotional wording and removing some unsourced content, I am removing the 'merchandise' section in it's entirety. As it stands, the majority of this article is lists of the products sold by this company which doesn't seem appropriate especially when the only references given are links to the companies website page where you can purchase each item (so not a third-party source). The inclusion of the 'merchandise' section appears to be more about promoting the corporation's cause rather than providing information about it. (Besides the list of purchasable items with purchase links, the language is a sales-pitch: If not interested in a bracelet, there are other products you can buy to help fund the mission .... If you would like do do cleaning up yourself while also promoting 4ocean, they sell ... Paisarepa (talk) 20:15, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

I consider the promotional tone of this article remedied, and will remove the banner in a couple of days unless there is a conflict here. Thanks! Paisarepa (talk) 20:19, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for cleaning up the article. As the editor who added the banner, I'm fine with it being removed now. - Donald Albury 22:05, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Will do. Thank you for your input! Paisarepa (talk) 22:15, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Company name

The company name is clearly 4Ocean, with a capital O. As you can see in the company's logo. Please change it. Aquatic Ambiance (talk) 08:44, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

I agree the logo looks like a capital O, but the company seems to always use lowercase when writing the name. For example, there are eight instances of the name on their official website, all using a lowercase o. — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:29, 9 November 2020 (UTC)