Deletion of Biotech and pharmaceutical companies in the New York metropolitan area

Comment: Most of the lead is about NYC per se and not the biotech industry there; the lead does not establish the notability of the topic as required per .   Additionally,  specifically says that for a company to be included in a list article, there must be '''independent, reliable sources''' for it.  If you look at the sourcing (which is very badly formatted), this is mostly sourced to directories (which is getting pretty close to copy/pasting) and where it isn't sourced to a directory, it is sourced to company websites (not independent).  So... this fails the relevant notability guidelines and runs afoul of 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN||WP:LISTCOMPANY||WP:NOTDIRECTORY)

Comment: and improve - Agree that article should be renamed "List of ....". As a list,  doesn't really apply (since "List of ..." is not going to be a topic covered substantially in secondary sources). The topic of this list |is likely useful. Companies on a list don't necessarily |have to be notable, but we will have to scrub the list of  and find refs to back up whatever remains. I understand the concern per , but I think a useful article could be crafted from this topic
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:LISTNAME||WP:LISTCOMPANY||WP:OR||WP:NOTDIR)

Comment: the last two mayors, and the current governor, have made the expansion of this sector to be major initiatives. There are |plenty of available sources online
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE)

Comment: per otadirectory|Wikipedia is not the phone book
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)