Talk:Walter De Brouwer

Requested edits March 2022
9. In the Career section, please add the following new subsection titled “Snowcrash” after the existing “XY.ai” subsection. This is a new venture co-founded by de Brouwer which has garnered press attention because Bob Dylan is one of participating musical artists. Here is proposed language for the new Snowcrash subsection:

Snowcrash

In March 2022, de Brouwer co-founded Snowcrash, with backing from Sony Music and Universal Music Group, a platform for trading NFTs from musicians, with initial offerings from Bob Dylan and Miles Davis. De Brouwer’s co-founders at Snowcrash are Jesse Dylan, a son of Bob Dylan, and Jeff Rosen.

or other reviewing editors: Would you mind taking a look at the Request 9 I have just added (a significant new biographical development) and reviewing the outstanding requests 4,5, 8? #6 also needs to be reviewed. I have a COI as a personal connection of Walter de Brouwer. Thank you. Supereditor1991 (talk) 18:10, 31 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Yes check.svg Done &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • C • L) 19:58, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Requested edits May 2022
Hi, I have a personal connection with the subject and therefore have a conflict of interest.

1. The “Doc.ai” sub-section in Career is missing important information (e.g., when the company was founded), includes several unsourced statements, some redundant repetitions of information, and multiple statements that violate WP:COATRACKING. Here is a proposed replacement:

De Brouwer was a co-founder in 2016 (along with his wife, Sam de Brouwer) and the original CEO of of doc.ai., a Palo Alto, CA-based artificial intelligence company with a focus on digital healthcare, including an app to help patients manage and analyze health data. In 2020, he stepped down as CEO and was replaced by Sam De Brouwer; he stayed on with the company as chief scientific officer. Doc.ai was acquired in January 2021 by the Atlanta-based digital health company Sharecare, who brought Walter De Brouwer onto their board as chief science officer as part of the merger.

2. I suggest that t“Research labs” subsection of the “Career” section be renamed “Starlab”, as its content is entirely about de Brouwer’s establishment and management of Starlab. Additionally, because the existing content contains an unsourced statement that Nicholas Negroponte co-founded Starlab, is missing important details, and contains several other unsourced claims, I propose an update to the text:

In 1996, De Brouwer founded Starlab. Under De Brouwer’s direction, by April 2001 it had hired 70 scientists from 33 different countries, whose academic expertise varied across a range of disciplines. Starlab went bankrupt in June 2001.

Because the Nature article is not available for free online, here is the excerpt from it:

Too few of Starlab’s ‘great ideas’ were attracting commercial interest, and investors had declined to buy bonds in the centre. By the end of May, Starlab was unable to pay its staff. And on 11 June, when a group of existing investors withdrew their support, de Brouwer was forced to call in receivers.

Thank you for your consideration.Supereditor1991 (talk) 16:44, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Yellow check.svg Partly done: I implemented most of your requests, save some information which should remain, and some edits for tone. PK650 (talk) 11:24, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Requested edits December 2022
Hi, I have a personal connection with the subject and therefore have a conflict of interest. since you reviewed this page recently, would you mind looking at these requests? Thank you.

1. In the Career section, “Internet” subsection, the first sentence is reference to a dead link (redirecting to the homepage of Politico.eu rather than the referenced article). Here is the sentence with a working link. It also omits mention of “PING”, which is not in the source.


 * In 1996, De Brouwer was one of the founders of EUnet.

2. In the Career section, “Internet” subsection, the second sentence has no source and is in the present tense, when it should be in the past tense. The sentence says the company he founded is “now” part of “CenturyLink” (when it is, in fact, now part of Lumen. )

The simple solution is to omit the reference to CenturyLink. I’ve also added a citation that establishes the sale, with a primary source that establishes the year.


 * Eunet was sold to Qwest Communications in 1999

3. In the Career section, “Internet” subsection, the third sentence is fragment that reads “His employment site, Jobscape.” and has a citation with no URL link. Here is a full sentence with two RS citations that have working links.


 * He founded the employment website Jobscape.

4. In the Infobox, two of the companies in “known for” have present tense references to renaming of companies after de Brouwer had exited. These renaming statements should be deleted so they don’t fall out of date. One of them, for EUNet, is already out-of-date. Here is a replacement twice deleting the word “now” and the renamed company:


 * known for  = Personal Computer Magazine, Wave, Eunet, Jobscape, Starlab, OLPC, Scanadu Inc, doc.ai Inc.

5. In the Career section, “XY.ai” subsection has no source other than the company website, which is not permissible. I can’t find any reliable source that mentions this company. I’d propose deleting the entire subsection.

In addition, assuming the subsection is deleted, the reference to xy.ai should also be removed from the Lead. The lead appears to have a citation to support xy.ai, but upon reading it, is actually about another company. Here is a revised sentence for the Lead, with xy.ai omitted:


 * He is the former CEO of doc.ai and of Scanadu.

Please note: I have added a ref name to the first source from Forbes because it repeats in Career/Doc.ai/first clause of first sentence. The full citation in Career will also need to be changed to the ref name, unless you want to skip the lead citation altogether. MOS:LEADCITE.

I have also given the full citation to Engadget so you can see it – but it already has a ref name in Career/Scanadu/first sentence. So only the ref name is needed in the lead sentence for the cite, or no source at all since it’s already in the article.

6. In the “Bibliography” section, please add the following citation as the last bibliographic entry in the list. De Brouwer is the main author in a peer reviewed article published in a journal, npj Digital Medicine, part of the Nature (journal) portfolio of scholarly journals.


 * De Brouwer, W., Patel, C.J., Manrai, A.K. et al. Empowering clinical research in a decentralized world. npj Digital Medicine 4, 102 (2021).

Thank you for considering these requests. Supereditor1991 (talk) 17:15, 20 December 2022 (UTC) Supereditor1991 (talk) 17:15, 20 December 2022 (UTC)


 * These seem acceptable to me, thanks for checking. Mr.weedle (talk) 23:56, 20 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Mr.weedle, thanks for your review. Would you like me to implement these changes? It looks like under WP:COI, I shouldn't edit the page directly, but if an independent editor has done a review and asks me to do the work for them, I think that should be OK. I'll link to this discussion in the Edit Summary. Thanks! Supereditor1991 (talk) 18:32, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting wait.svg Already done Done by COI editor upon verification of edit request. Closing as already done. &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 20:21, 13 January 2023 (UTC)