Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Toy


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was redirect to Black–Derman–Toy model. czar 02:23, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

William Toy

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Seems to fail WP:GNG. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:03, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finance-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 23:15, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 23:16, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Economics-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 23:16, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 23:16, 30 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Merge Redirect to Black–Derman–Toy model: While one might wonder what in the blazes a "leading finance practitioner" is (I do the household banking, does that make me one?), there's an easy redirect target here.   Ravenswing   23:59, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. I have left a comment at Talk:Black–Derman–Toy model pointing editors there to this merge proposal, as I believe should be a required part of the process whenever a merge is proposed in an AfD. To do otherwise risks a conflicting outcome where the consensus here is to merge and the consensus among regular editors of that article is that the biographical material about Toy does not belong in that article and should not be merged, leading them to undo the merge and jeopardizing the result of the AfD. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:35, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect, no merge. There's a little non-trivial personal coverage of him in Derman's My Life as a Quant but not enough by itself for general notability. All the rest of the coverage that I can find of him merely mentions his name as one of the creators of the Black–Derman–Toy model, a significant accomplishment but only one thing. His academic citation record shows huge citations for that one thing but not much else, and his co-editorship of The Handbook of Equity Derivatives isn't enough for notability as a book author. No merge because the other information about him in this article isn't relevant for the redirect target. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:27, 2 August 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.