Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Troy Simonson


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The result was delete. Geschichte (talk) 20:19, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Troy Simonson

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Fails WP:BIO, just being the CEO of a company does not give a free pass to notability. The subject lacks significant coverage in reliable sources and current sources are either passing mentions, announcements or profiles on some websites and I can see nothing that establishes independent notability per WP:NOTINHERITED. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 16:36, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 16:36, 22 January 2021 (UTC)


 * delete run of hte mill local business guy with no in depth coverage. CUPIDICAE💕  16:46, 22 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep Delete

Primary author: Agree with community's comments regarding deletion.

This profile covers Troy Simonson, who was the first CEO of one of the ten largest orthopedic healthcare organizations in the entire United States.

Contrary to the comment from User GSS, the articles referenced do not make a passing reference to Troy Simonson, but rather he is indeed the subject of these majority of the articles. I would ask that potential reviewers please actually open these articles to see this themselves. The reason for this coverage is that the CEO of one of the largest healthcare groups in the US has a very significant impact.

The sources for these articles include 1) the Star Tribute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Tribune) which is the largest newspaper in the state of Minnesota, 2) Beckers (a leading healthcare newspaper referenced throughout wikipedia), and 3) the Business Journal, among others.

I have not yet been through a deletion debate, but I hope this helps to clarify to the Wikipedia community why this figure absolutely fits the criteria for notability and should be kept. I have worked to edit and further Wikipedia's articles on notable healthcare figures, inspired in part by the low number of articles on these figures relative to others like pop culture and wealthy financiers. I am not sure how someone can do much more to be notable within healthcare, but deliberately reviewed the General Notability Guidelines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#General_notability_guideline) before publishing this and believe that Troy Simonson certainly fits these criteria.

Thank you for taking the time to be a part of this community.

RJorst10 (talk) 17:04, 22 January 2021 (UTC) — RJorst10 (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Kj cheetham (talk) 19:29, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete – The independent sources do contain quotes from him about the company, but don't include coverage of him. – Thjarkur (talk) 19:39, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete a run of the mill business owner. In a business field where most businesses are quite small, even running the largest such business in one particular country is not going to be a default sign of notability,John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:17, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:GNG and WP:SNOW. He's not accomplished anything notable; being the CEO of a medical company with 100 MDs is not notable per se, and the coverage is lacking. Bearian (talk) 17:44, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


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