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The eLearning Guild
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Speedy deletion of The eLearning Guild
A tag has been placed on The eLearning Guild requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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Re: copyright
Even if you do own the copyright for the material, in order to use it on Wikipedia, you must agree to release your rights to the material either to the public domain or under the GDFL or one of the Creative Commons licenses. And you will have to indicate on the webpage the text originally existed that you have done this. Also, just a comment, the text in the article had other problems such as violating Wikipedia's policy on neutrality and the article's subject probably also fails the notability rules found here. The reason we have these rules is so that readers can verify that what is being said is true. Also, you will want to read Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest before you try writing about something that you are intimately familiar with and/or have a vested interest in. Thingg &#8853; &#8855; 16:12, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of The eLearning Guild
A tag has been placed on The eLearning Guild, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. VasuVR ( talk,  contribs ) 17:55, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Latest delete of The eLearning Guild
Vasu, I am confused. I had an earlier objection from another admin, and I thought I had addressed those objections. The eLearning Guild is a professional organization with world-wide membership. I notice that other professional organizations (for example, IEEE) and their publications (for example, T+D which is the publication of the American Society for Training and Development) are permitted to have pages on Wikipedia. Why do you see us as different? Please refer to our web site http://www.elearningguild.com for further information about The Guild. Thank you for your help with my understanding. WmBrandon