Elky Hyrule

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerators (ERA)

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerators (ERA), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Managing a conflict of interest

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:35, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

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Elky, I'm failing to get ERA cofounders to even respond to my requests re: photographs of their demo day

Dear Elky,

Your draft article on ERA looks incredible. Encyclopedic, comprehensive, informative. Solid reference support. Neutral PoV. Very nice work, ma'am!

Starting on Saturday 18 April 2020 18:11 EST, I emailed ERA co-founder Murat Aktihanoglu (hope that's spelled correctly) three times asking to obtain a good photograph of demo day to replace your placeholder image. As of tonight Friday 15 May 2020, I have never received a response. That's approximately one month. On Wednesday 13 May 5:05 PM, I emailed a second ERA co-founder Jonathan Axelrod, mostly to get information necessary to resolve potential copyright infringement. I tried Jonathan's gmail account, but received no response. I'm now trying his business email at ERA. Hopefully Jonathan will respond. It's very unusual for the owner of a business to not support tasks to create a presence in Wikipedia, so I'm quite puzzled. I discovered a third cofounder Charlie Kemper, but don't think he is involved much in ERA any longer.

I hope my efforts are helping fill in your excellent article. The world's free encyclopedia is better for your work!

Your truly, Valentinadolce (talk) 00:24, 16 May 2020 (UTC) - Valentina

Elky, I'm failing to get Sayspring founder Mark Webster to even respond to my requests re: photographs of his ERA demo day

Dear Elky,

The two ERA co-founders (Murat Aktihanoglu and Jonathan Axelrod) never responded to my multiple emails.

On May 20th an ERA individual named Karen Novak offered to email me an ERA demo day still photo. But because the Sayspring photo is such good quality (clear, high resolution, in focus, bright colors, closeup, good angle, uncluttered, captured the "feel" of a demo day, etc) and links easily to the associated public video (on Youtube) and Sayspring already uses the still image as a thumbnail (on YouTube), I suggested that we (Karen Novak and I) instead first try to encourage Sayspring founder Mark Webster to release the copyright over the still photo to Wikimedia.

I apologise - I don't know if Karen acted. For my part, I emailed Sayspring founder Mark Webster ten more times. Mark never responded.

I'm sorry I wasn't able to be more help to you, ma'am.

Yours truly, Valentina
Valentinadolce (talk) 18:31, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

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