Deletion of Gary Boyd Roberts

Comment: Given that Who's Who is considered kind of fishy for notability I'm not sure if receiving their Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award (https://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/460849/gary-boyd-roberts-presented-with-the-albert-nelson-marquis-lifetime-achievement-award-by-marquis-whos-who as Roberts did earlier this year) would qualify for #C2. However, the Who's Who website does describe it as very prestigious. https://www.marquiswhoswho.com/pages/lifetime-achievement-synopsis
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: per   "The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors." Good work by Bearian and RebeccaGreen
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:AUTHOR)

Comment: I have searched the Googles (scholar, books, news), Proquest (Global Newsstream; The New York Times), and JSTOR. While Roberts has assembled and published various genealogies, and though these findings are occasionally picked up by the press, he himself does not meet notability. There is scant biographical information on him in this article, and so little of it is cited. In sum, he fails : ''...a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: A dearth of reviews by independent reliable sources, certainly not enough to pass . No specific in-depth biographical coverage of him either, so does not pass . The "Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award" is a well-known vanity gimmick award by a vanity press.  The presence of this award here is a major red flag
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:AUTHOR||WP:BIO)

Comment: I have only just started searching for sources on this person, but a quick Google News search shows that he is cited by news reports in many languages (eg Spanish, German, Indonesian, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Arabic, etc) about the genealogical research he has done showing links between various well-known people (Clinton and Madonna, Elvis Presley and Jimmy Carter, Obama and Bush, that one of President Bush's ancestors was a slave trader, and of course that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are related). These articles go back to 2008, in the current google news (ie not archived). So I am thinking that he would meet  #1 "The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:AUTHOR)

Comment: the New England Historic Genealogical Society is the premier such society in the United States. His work for them allows him to meet the |relevant notability guideline for scholars. His work has been cited hundreds of times by news articles
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)