Deletion of List of former employees of McKinsey & Company

Comment: per  and  as an index of notable people by connection to a notable company, and per  as an encyclopedic subsection of a parent article on the notable company too large to be contained therein. This is just a list of notable people who worked for a notable company, which is compliant with NOTDIR as a standard, consensus-supported method of indexing articles (see extensive contents of :Category:People by company). The nominator's rationale seems to rest entirely upon the incorrect assumption that this would (or should) eventually contain everyone whoever worked for the company, when it is actually standard practice to limit such lists only to those individuals with articles, just as we would with a list of people from a town, alumni of a school, etc. The parent article, McKinsey & Company, at present contains no list of notable employees, instead only pointing to the list's corresponding category, so we would at most merge this list there rather than deleting it outright, and with 158 articles in :Category:McKinsey & Company people there are undoubtedly enough to merit a standalone list as a split from the parent. Whether each particular individual's connection is substantive enough to merit inclusion in the list or the category is a matter for ordinary editing, and the list can also annotate just what the relationship is
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (WP:LISTPURP||WP:CLN||WP:SPLIT)