Talk:RightScale

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Please feel free to contribute samj (talk) 21:41, 17 September 2008 (UTC) Hi samj, I'd like to contribute to updating the content, but have a potential COI because I work for RightScale, so I would appreciate your guidance and review to ensure that my edits are considered neutral and not self-promotional. Thank you, Angelatripp (talk) 20:50, 11 July 2011 (UTC)Angelatripp

Alas, people "in the biz" tend to speak in buzzwords and code like "cloud SaaS solutions for IaaS" that is totally incomprehensible to normal people. One suggestion is to use normal English. For example, I think they sell software as a service, not clouds nor solutions. W Nowicki (talk) 21:21, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Buzzwords are back in?

It looks like User:Angelatripp put all the buzzwords back in. This appears to be a WP:Single purpose account which is generally discouraged. For one of many examples:

RightScale is a SaaS-based cloud computing management solution for managing cloud infrastructure across multiple IaaS providers. RightScale enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business-critical applications across public, private, and hybrid clouds...

Means nothing to most readers. Please look at the articles on solution and cloud for example - I do not think this company sells those. Also look at the article on infrastructure, which generally means roads, pipes in the ground and bridges. Acronyms like XaaY ZaaQ etc. probably confuse normal people. Now to a certain very narrow set of this company's customers, these terms might mean something, but please see WP:PROMOTION: this is not the place to promote a company. Explain in plain English please, or the article will need to go through the deletion process. Thanks. W Nowicki (talk) 22:31, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

COI

User:Flenleaf lost password to that account, so is continuing with intent to do COI proposed edit changes as User:Flenleaf1, having first declared COI on own User page. David notMD (talk) 18:58, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello Flenleaf1 (talk) 15:40, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I can't edit! Flenleaf1 (talk) 15:42, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

@David notMD: Flenleaf1 (talk) 15:43, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Please check my user page!

It says my edits were saved but nothing comes up Flenleaf1 (talk) 15:47, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello, @David notMD: Flenleaf1 (talk) 08:41, 27 December 2020 (UTC)yes, you can change e it to "was" and my suggested edits are related to its foundership. That's my main suggestion. The foundership is messed up, please refer to the earlier history of it. The user Angela Tripp kept changing it. (https://www.linkedin.com/authwall?trk=bf&trkInfo=AQEYeDfk8R3j-gAAAXajVPJwnfM00dmuB12dPbBBsQK1ppSlhtVObFP6cO8V3z0NlnBDCjm4pgxqyOP1WBHZiGosFWw0EEkogSWBrjmhnlRLJvQLVCjRBpXUIUSn-ZBNyR7biMA=&originalReferer=&sessionRedirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fangelatripp). She did her best to damage the page. Please look into my request and change it back to what it was at the time of @Hugo999: Flenleaf1 (talk) 08:41, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

COI suggesting an edit

Hello everyone,

I am connected to RightScale, and hence I can't directly edit it.

I had tried it before but my edits were reverted by an Admin. So, here I am by the book to help make Wikipedia a better place.

My suggested edits are liable and legit. Please have a look at revision no. -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/979834135

Directly :

Jonathan Siegel (then sole owner of ELC Technologies, LLC) and Thorsten von Eicken cofounded RightScale, originally as AWS-Console.com. AWS-Console launched 12/31/2006 in a screencast posted by Siegel to the Ruby on Rails mailing group. On March 26, 2007, Amazon Web Services contacted AWS-Console and gave notice of potential infringement of their trademark on AWS. AWS-Console was relaunched as RightScale at RailsConf on March 17, 2007 and further promoted at OReilly Etech on March 27, 2007 as a joint venture between ELC Technologies and Thorsten von Eicken. Siegel sold his shares in RightScale on December 15, 2009.

Thorsten von Eicken, a former professor of computer science at Cornell University, left to manage systems architecture for Expertcity, the startup company that became Citrix Online. Jonathan Siegel and Thorsten von Eicken were joined by RightScale CEO Michael Crandell and RightScale Vice President of Engineering, Rafael Saavedra. and RightScale Vice President of Engineering Rafael Saavedra.

RightScale received $4.5 million in venture capital in April 2008, $13 million in December 2008 and $25 million in September 2010.

References

@David NotMD:

Thank you :) Flenleaf1 (talk) 08:43, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Please ignore the typos. I have had a lot of trouble to post this as my Wikipedia was facing some technical difficulties.

@David notMD: @Hugo999: Flenleaf1 (talk) 08:46, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

If you look at the early history of RightScale, you will find user Angela Tripp damaging the page again and again. She probably has personal rivalry, please look into my references and change its foundership history. Flenleaf1 (talk) 08:51, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

NOTE: User:Angelatripp, likely Angela Tripp, did undeclared paid editing to the article, but stopped all editing in March 2019. Angelatripp repeatedly reverted all attempts to name Jonathan Siegel as founder of what later became RightScale. David notMD (talk) 10:25, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

@David notMD: Hey, nothing showed up. I am going to ask Teahouse for help.

Hey Hugo999, can you please help? @Hugo999: (talk) 16:31, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

 Note: I'm changing the {{edit extended-protected}} template to a {{request edit}} one, as the editor requesting these changes has stated they have a COI with the company. Seagull123 Φ 22:47, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Is there any editor consensus on how to move forward with this editing war? The few sources about the true founders of this organization are not highly reliable, and after going through all listed and proposed references, I’m none the wiser. Furthermore, the anecdotal information about the early days of this organization don’t add significant value to the article. What do you think? Should we keep the request open, decline it on the grounds of poor sources? Ferkijel (talk) 21:36, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Ferkijel (talk) Hey, is it possible to remove the foundership entirely due to poor source (as you said)? You can remove the Early days if it's not really helpful. Also, is RightScale notable enough to be on Wikipedia? If not, then I would like to nominate it for deletion please. You can find user Angelatripp on LinkedIn, she has vandalized the page since the beginning with wrong information. https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelatripp Flenleaf1 (talk) 10:33, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

As you can see from https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=RightScale&dir=prev&action=history - Angela Tripp's first edit was to add foundership & CEo, etc.