Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Skip Prichard
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
— User:Alansohn, 04:34, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BEFORE||WP:AFC (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion)