Deletion of Abba Gumel

Comment: Holder of a named chair at a major university, so meets . It is not the subject's choice whether or not they have an article and it is not in any way a "violation
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: courtesy delete is allowed per  -- this is definitely a pass of notability via WP:PROF by the named chair and certainly WP has the right to keep correct information online where there is no copyright violation (hence why you can't take someone else's photograph from facebook and pass it around, but you can take a photo that shows me in it and put it on the net.) But I think that this fits in with the non-public clause that allows for a deletion. However, we do not have a request from Abba Gumel himself, and this statement "At the appropriate time, he will setup a page as necessary" suggests that a deletion of this page will be replaced by a page without . I think it will be a pain to keep up, not worth the effort of defending, and thus a delete is much easier; however, per precedent, this page is definitely a Keep however
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:BIODEL||WP:NPOV)

Comment: The holder of a named chair at a major state university in the USA is easily notable.  We could still delete on other grounds, as summarised at , but (1) that's for junk articles of various sorts, and this one is respectable, and (2) such a deletion doesn't address notability grounds, so anyone could create a new article on the guy immediately
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over (WP:TNT)

Comment: Is notable a holder of a named chair at a major North American university.  (Also per #C1 see above
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: per #C1 (highly cited publications in a low-citation field) as well as #C5 (the named chair). The publication impact is borderline enough that I'd be willing to follow the subject's preference if notability were based only on it, but the named chair is unambiguous. And the deletion statement (especially the part about "he will setup a page" seems to reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of what Wikipedia is and how it works — it is not a hosting site for you to write about yourself, nor should the subject of an article have direct control over it. As for the article being a "violation": obviously if the subject sees and can articulate specific problems with it then those should be cleaned up, but it looks unobjectionable to me
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)