Dmhirsch

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Hi Dmhrisch, as I said before, Wikipedia is not a venue for promotion or self-promotion. Please don't re-add that self-cited, promotional text to Wikipedia. The article is correct as is. Thank you for your cooperation. Please also do not post inside discussions that have been closed; if a section is inside of a colored box and reads "The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.", then don't post inside it. Thank you. Softlavender (talk) 02:44, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi softlavender, I appreciate your point about promotion/self-promotion and definitely want to maintain the integrity of wikipedia. I am focused on adding Mrs. Broido Johnson, because I took a Women in Business class and learned about her as a founder of the company and it was noted that she doesn't receive the same credit as Jigar Shah, namely due to poor self promotion. I believe it is important to note female founders and maintain an accurate history. Here are other sources noting her as a co-founder - http://espp.fas.harvard.edu/pages/claire-broido-johnson, https://www.crunchbase.com/person/claire-broido-johnson , http://www.bloomberg.com/Research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=27954711&privcapId=133969926&previousCapId=216559545&previousTitle=Wiselime%20LLC , https://books.google.com/books?id=nyjMBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&dq=claire+broido+johnson+sunedison+founder&source=bl&ots=Tmn4iQmAUL&sig=fOSjwB1AoNXG6Ms9yToXTXD_Mgw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1W9yVZmWDcPaoATA1IOQBA&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=claire%20broido%20johnson%20sunedison%20founder&f=false. Dmhirsch (talk) 04:05, 6 June 2015 (UTC)dmhirsch

Hello again. Please put your posts below those you are responding to, and indent them with colons to properly nest under the post you are replying to; I've done that for you above. Your interest in promoting Johnson is insufficient reason to add the name to the article about MEMC, now called SunEdison Inc. As I mentioned twice before, Wikipedia is not a venue for promotion. The article is about the silicon-wafer company founded in 1959, not about SunEdison LLC which no longer exists; there is no reason to list co-founders of the defunct company. Softlavender (talk) 04:18, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for putting up with my poor etiquette. Part of the learning process. Claire Broido Johnson co-founded SunEdison with Jigar Shah in 2003. If it is worth mentioning him, it is worth mentioning her as well. Also, SunEdison LLC still exists as noted in the 10-k under organizations. I would also say in general the article is about the publicly listed SunEdison Inc, the renewable project developer and creator of TERP, which traces its roots back to 1959 as MEMC as opposed to saying it is about MEMC. Dmhirsch (talk) 05:49, 6 June 2015 (UTC) dmhirsch

While it seems that she was there from the beginning and helped in the founding of the company, there is no reliable indication independent of her say-so that she was the founder per se, or an equivalent founder to Shah, who was the founder and CEO. Bloomberg is generated from input from the subject; Crunchbase is crowd-sourced, a 2012 book is 9 years after the fact, and so on. I'm not really interested in drawing out this discussion further. If you feel that Johnson is encyclopedicly notable, I suggest that you try to create an article on her. See Wikipedia:Your first article, and Wikipedia:Articles for creation. If you are simply here to promote Johnson or right great wrongs rather than to build an encyclopedia, you should turn your attention elsewhere on the web, into some other format such as a persona blog, etc. Thank you. Softlavender (talk) 06:54, 6 June 2015 (UTC)