Talk:Silicon Valley Leadership Group

Copyright Violations
So far:
 * 4 Jun 2010, | edit by 68.65.78.242 is blatant copy from the organization's website. Looking for more.
 * 9 May 2011, |This edit by User:SVLG removed quotes around a block quote taken form the website. substituted one problematic block quote for another. The block quote shouldn't even be here, let alone removing the quotes.
 * 22 Jun 2012, |from the first point in this edit, "on time and on budget." appears to be an unattributed quote from an | OP-ed written by the CEO himself.

I suggest rollback to this edit from 30 Aug 2009. This edit actually has more sources than the present revision. It's unfortunate to lose the good-faith contributions since then, but luckily most of these edits are minor. We can re-add an info-box and so forth.Forbes72 (talk) 03:40, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * That would have been my choice too,, if there hadn't been foundational copy-pasting from another source (http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/854.html) as well. That left me nowhere to roll back to, so I've reluctantly opted for radical surgery instead. As always, I regret the pointless waste of the time and effort of good-faith editors that copyright violation all too often causes. Your work below seems to provide an excellent starting-point for anyone who now wants to expand this article, so thank you! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:31, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Sources for later revisions
Immigration reform: California Proposition 30 opposition: Founding/General: CEO Carl Guardino: PACs and Political donations: Transport:

For later reference. Forbes72 (talk) 20:41, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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Proposed merge with Carl Guardino
Guardino appears to have little or no independent notability, equally little coverage in reliable sources. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:09, 1 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Unless there are objections I will merge in the coming days. BananaCarrot152 (talk) 07:24, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Ahmad Thomas as the new CEO
This says the new CEO is Ahmad Thomas, effective August 10, 2020. The website, however, says the CEO is Ahmad Thomas. The official website is, in my opinion, enough, but I'd personally wait until August 10. Ahmadtalk 18:18, 6 August 2020 (UTC)