Deletion of Skip Prichard

Comment: You seem to be conflating the importance of the OCLC with the man. Notability is not inherited. Indeed, so far I have been offered a mixture of trade papers entries, interviews and press releases. Wikipedia deals in evidence,  in instance, and 
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO||WP:V)

Comment: fails  for me - the "ample sources identified" by Alansohn are only marginally-above-routine coverage in trade journals (librarian) and local newspapers (Ohio, where OCLC is based). Meanwhile, "leadership blogger" in the lede and a yet-to-be-published book in the "Publications" section scream . That this article was pushed into mainspace just 2 months before the book's release date (https://www.amazon.com/Skip-Prichard/e/B075FB7YRD 6 February 2018) can only make one ponder. Wikipedia is no . Thanks and regards
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:SPAM||WP:SOAPBOX)

Comment: I know nothing about Prichard and I've never seen the article before. I clicked on the link labeled "news" as part of the AfD header and found the following sources on the first page of listings. There was http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Skip-Prichard-Named-OCLC-President-and-CEO-89711.asp "Skip Prichard Named OCLC President and CEO " from Information Today, Inc. from back in 2013, and both http://www.dispatch.com/news/20171125/qampa-skip-prichard-oclc-chief-invested-in-sharing-knowledge-leadership-skills "Q&A: Skip Prichard: OCLC chief invested in sharing knowledge, leadership skills", from ''The Columbus Dispatch'' and https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/74027-ala-2017-spotlight-four-questions-with-skip-prichard.html "ALA 2017 Spotlight: Four Questions with Skip Prichard", from ''Publishers Weekly'' from this month. Sources in the article, such as https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2013/10/01/an-interview-with-skip-prichard/ "An Interview with Skip Prichard" in ''American Libraries'', only add to the breadth of reliable and verifiable, in-depth sources about Prichard.  I'm sure that the nominator and the participant who voted to delete are justifiably irked that this article didn't properly graduate through the AfC process, again one I know nothing about. But the claim of notability as head of OCLC and the ample sources about the subject in the article and available to be added all meet and surpass the notability standard. It's not clear, given how trivially I found these sources, that the bare minimum requirements of  to search for sources was met by the nominator. I hope that both {{u|Scope creep}} and {{u|Johnpacklambert}} will withdraw this AfD and / or reconsider their votes, or at least offer a more meaningful justification for deletion than the issue of a "failed draft in  moved into mainspace after failing review" in the face of the ample sources identified
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE||WP:AFC)

Comment: I find that the leaders in their field tend to be covered more in the relevant trade press, professional journals and the like, given the preference of the mainstream media to focus on politics, sport and "celebrities" and a preference for stories about how people fail or do bad things (the sensational) rather than how they achieve or do good things. So we have to look at reliable sources relative to the subject matter as per 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RSCONTEXT)