Talk:GNS Healthcare

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because the company operates in an important industry, the company has been featured in a number of news articles, the CEO is a contributor (blogger) on Forbes.com, and it is in the process of being edited so as to reflect these factors. — David Santucci (talk) 20:23, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

The article has been edited to establish the importance. Please remove tag. — David Santucci (talk) 21:55, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

I've removed the speedy deletion notice, but the article still raises significant concerns for me. Specifically:

1. It does not have an assertion of importance. That is, the text of the article doesn't say what is interesting or notable about this company. See WP:CORP for examples of notability of companies.
2. The references provided are weak. Its not clear to me that FierceIT is any more than a blog, so I'n not convinced it meets Wikipedia's requirements for reliable sources. See [{WP:RS]] for details.

Sparthorse (talk) 22:36, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Fierce Healthcare is a reputable news source for healthcare. It is certainly more reliable than a blog. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LizzieMcQu (talk • contribs) 22:52, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Responding to the concerns of Sparthorse:

1. Nowhere in the notability guidelines for organizations and companies does it say that an article should explicitly make an "assertion of importance." In fact, doing so would probably constitute advertising/promotion or original research. The requirements for notability are quite explicitly spelled out: "significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources" [my emphasis].
2. The notability guidelines for organizations and companies clearly states that "sources used to support a claim of notability include independent, reliable publications in all forms, such as newspaper articles, books, television documentaries, websites, and published reports by consumer watchdog organizations," with the exception of self-published or self-generated content. It is not clear how Sparthorse made the determination that the sources cited were "weak," but the fact that there are multiple citations from a single source as well as coverage from multiple sources certainly qualifies as significant coverage. Further, all sources are independent, although this does not appear to have been called into question by Sparthorse. The question of what is a reliable source is left more open to interpretation by Wikipedia's guidelines, however:
   • FierceBiotechIT and HPCWire are both media outlets, and trusted sources of industry news:
     • FierceBiotechIT has 19,000 newsletter subscribers and 14,500 monthly readers and an editorial staff of five.
     • HPCWire has been writing about high performance computing since 1986 and has an editorial staff of three.
   • The Council on Competitiveness is a non-partisan and non-governmental organization founded in 1986 and composed of "CEOs, university presidents, and labor leaders working to ensure U.S. prosperity."

David Santucci (talk) 10:30, 15 December 2011 (UTC)