Talk:Business guru

This article was nominated for deletion on 16 September 2015. The result of the discussion was keep.

Proposed Merge / Deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because... it was a requested article in Wikipedia:WikiProject Business, so it should probably be improved before deleted. Or can someone clarify what standard is needed for a requested article to be created? --GoldCoastPrior (talk) 19:58, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I would nominate the page for AfD as a "dictionary definition" WP:DICTDEF, or perhaps redirect the page to Expert based on the existing content. What distinguishes a "Business guru" from an expert/mentor in any other field? --Versa geek 20:23, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comment. I am open to merging this content with another page, but I'm not sure "expert" is the right one. You wouldn't merge "biologist" to "expert" because they're experts in biology.

A "business guru" as I understand it can be both a theorist (like Peter Drucker or Michael Porter) or a practitioner (Alfred Sloan, Warren Buffett). This means "guru" isn't the same as "manager," "business manager," or "business theorist." The idea is that there is a science to business, and business gurus are the ones who formalized it with their writing and/or business practices. It is like a general term for a computer scientist and a programmer if there were a list of great thinkers that includes best practices from both... I am also not sure if there is something innate about how business focuses more on learning from practice than theory than most other disciplines.

This may just belong to business or management, but I note that there are also separate pages for biology and biologist. I'm open to suggestions here... --GoldCoastPrior (talk) 21:04, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looking around on Wikipedia, I don't see another obvious page where Drucker, Porter, Sloan, and Taylor are all in the same place. When I look for Galileo, Einstein, and Newton, I see a few places where they're all together (e.g., History of Physics). I am not saying that the business gurus I've listed are as historically important as Galileo etc, but I do think there should be a single page on Wikipedia where you can find them. Maybe "history of business" or something like that? --GoldCoastPrior (talk) 21:10, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I guess Businessperson is the right article, in which this belongs as subsection. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 05:27, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Businessperson could work. The subsection would need some introduction, especially to note that Drucker and Porter were famous for their theories and writing, not for being businesspeople (is that a word? awkward). --GoldCoastPrior (talk) 14:52, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]