Talk:Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

Request updates

Hello! I work for Xero and am seeking updates to this article. I know I shouldn't edit directly due to my conflict of interest. This article is a little bit out of date, so I've made a few suggestions below, including citations, in the interests of bringing it up to date.

Infobox:

Please update 'Board member of' field to remove the existing businesses and add Upstart. Please update 'Website' to xero.com.

 Partly done I'll need to find sources that she is no longer on those on those other other boards, but you have provided a citation for Upstart (it's a first-party source but this is a light claim). I don't think JoyUs.com should be the website, but neither should Xero.com, as it's not her personal site. EDIT: I can update board positions now, but not her site.

Introduction:

Please update the introduction to: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (born Sukhinder Singh in 1970) is a technology executive and entrepreneur. She is currently the CEO of Xero, formerly the president of StubHub , and has worked at various tech and media companies including Google, Amazon, News Corp, Yodlee, and Polyvore. In 2011, she founded JOYUS, the video shopping platform for women, and served as CEO then Chairman until 2017. Singh Cassidy is also Founder of theBoardlist.

 Done with some small tweaks

Board member and advisor section:

Please update Board member and advisor section to: Singh Cassidy serves as a public board director at Upstart. She previously served on the boards of Tripadvisor (TRIP), Ericsson (ERIC), Urban Outfitters (URBN), J.Crew Group, Inc (JCG), StitchFix (SFIX), and as an advisor to Twitter (TWTR).

 Partly done. I made most of these changes. I had to change some sources and Twitter is obviously no longer public, so it doesn't get a ticker symbol. I made the name change as per WP:NCBIO.

Please update Sukhinder's surname throughout the article to Singh Cassidy (rather than just Cassidy). And please update the photo which is now 9 years old, to the current photo in this news article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/48-hours-tech-guru-sukhinder-singh-cassidys-new-rhythm-sydney-2024-02-15/

 Not done as I see no proof that you have any right to this photo. If you have purchased the photo with the correct rights, please upload it to Wikimedia Commons and tag me and I'll help update it.

Thank you very much! JT at Xero (talk) 02:12, 18 June 2024 (UTC) JT at Xero (talk) 02:12, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

References

Please review and publish redrafted article in my sandbox

Hi editors, further to my request above, I've noticed that a banner has now been placed on this article stating that it may require copy editing for 'Majority of references are undated and have no access-date'. I've been through and updated the article and added current sources for every claim, including access dates, and deleted claims without sources or with expired sources. I've also updated the image. This is all drafted in my sandbox. It would be great if someone could please review and implement this drafted article in the interests of bringing it up to date and appropriately sourced. I work for Xero, so I don't make updates myself due to a conflict of interest. Thank you in advance JT at Xero (talk) 05:37, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi @JT at Xero, saw your request at Xero. I'll take a look. --FeldBum (talk) 15:53, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, really appreciate it JT at Xero (talk) 08:03, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

OK, I made all the edits I could for now so I'm going to close this request. Take a look my responses above @JT at Xero. This page still needs some edits (and you may not love all of the edits I make here, but they will make the page better and allow me to remove the tag at the top). Feel free to tag me or leave me a Talk message if you need further help. --FeldBum (talk) 15:01, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi @FeldBum thanks very much for your help here. No problem that you've made a few tweaks etc, I totally understand I am just here to make suggestions in the interests of bringing the page up to date. Regarding the photo, after I put through the above request I went through the correct channels and uploaded it to Wikimedia Commons and this was the photo I linked in my sandbox: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sukhinder_Singh_Cassidy_2023.jpg. Thanks again. JT at Xero (talk) 22:01, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi @FeldBum Just adding that in my sandbox article linked above I've found sources for all claims and removed the ones for which I can no longer find a source, I know it's really important that everything is sourced. Also just a quick check if we could include Stubhub as its own section rather than at the bottom of the Boardlist one? Suggestion below:

StubHub

Singh Cassidy was president of StubHub (a subsidiary of eBay), a leading global ticketing marketplace for live entertainment, from April 2018 (ref: "Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Named President of StubHub". Billboard. 5 April 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2024.) until May 2020 (ref: "StubHub President Transitioning Out, Company Announces Additional Layoffs". Pollstar. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2024.). She also served as a member of eBay’s global executive leadership team (ref: "StubHub President Transitioning Out, Company Announces Additional Layoffs". Pollstar. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2024.).

In 2020, Singh Cassidy and her team successfully helped lead and execute the sale of StubHub to Viagogo for $4.05 billion (ref: "Viagogo Completes $4B StubHub Acquisition as UK Merger Investigation Continues". Billboard. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2024.). Thank you for your consideration JT at Xero (talk) 05:16, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

I'll take a closer look @JT at Xero, but we need to adhere to NPOV standards. You can't say that Stubhub is a "leading global" anything, just that it is a something, since those adjectives and superlatives present a clear POV. Think of this as the opposite of PR. That, in a nutshell, is what I need to clean up in the article. This is all needs to be very dry and vanilla. Even an adjective like "successfully" is a POV on the facts on the ground, becuase it asks us to determine who defines that success, and from what point of view. I can take a look at cleaning up and adding. --FeldBum (talk) 13:34, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Understood, thank you! JT at Xero (talk) 21:02, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

NP - I'm starting to look through. Another thing to look out for is coatracking, where we're trying to tell a different story on the page, like the JOYUS story being told on Singh Cassidy's page. I'm going to reduce quotes and superlatives/adjectives a lot as I go through, so feel free to contact me where you feel I've gone too far, but this page isn't in a great place right now. -- FeldBum (talk) 15:13, 22 August 2024 (UTC)