Talk:Jim Whitehurst

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pov?[edit]

pov. sounds like a sales pitch. --James Michael DuPont (talk) 21:39, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Limited info under "Business positions"[edit]

Several important job titles held by Jim Whitehurst[edit]

In the first few sentences of this article, the lede mentions at least 4 [past or present] important-sounding job titles held by Jim Whitehurst, at some well-known companies. Besides his current title, which includes the word "interim", some of the others may have "also" been temporary... (or perhaps they just "turned out to be" kinda temporary?)

Only one of them mentioned, under "Business positions"[edit]

Only one of those [current or past] roles -- (President and CEO of Red Hat / December 20, 2007 – April 6, 2020) -- is even mentioned under "Business positions", in the little "box" or grouping down near the bottom of the article, that is displayed under the heading or 'title' of "Business positions". It can be found after "External links", but before the "Red Hat" ['box'] template.

The wikitext for that little 'box' of "Business positions", down near the bottom of the article, starts with
{{s-start}}
{{s-bus}}
and it ends with
{{s-end}}

That little 'box' does include

President and CEO of Red Hat
December 20, 2007 – April 6, 2020

but (ignoring, for now, his current assignment, because it is an "interim" position) that little 'box' also does not include

President of IBM

nor

COO at Delta Air Lines.

Maybe this is "as it should be" -- ? --[edit]

I do not know very much about ... how the decisions should be made, about which "list items" [of this kind] should be included, and which ones should be left out. So, maybe there is a good reason for "President and CEO of Red Hat" to be the only one included, here, and for the others to be left out.

But just in case at least "some" of those others should be (at least "considered", to "perhaps" be) included, there, . . . that is the reason for this section of this "Talk:" page.

Any comments?[edit]

Thanks for listening. Mike Schwartz (talk) 21:37, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]