Deletion of Christopher Winship

Comment: I'm sure I'll regret asking but is there a policy saying that we need to contact the author before nominating for Afd?  There's an etiquette line in  saying you might want to let the author know that you ''have'' nominated their article for Afd, but I don't see one saying you should notify when you ''are going to'' nominate for Afd.  While I agree that there's a difference between good articles re: academic folks and trashy articles about garage bands and vanity nonsense, I don't know that there's an official place recommending what you're suggesting.  Sounds like a nice-to-have
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:AFD)

Comment: Is there any evidence his 3 books meet  readership criteria?  IMO,  isn't valid as it isn't an accepted guideline
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO||WP:PROFTEST)

Comment: as above, currently fails .  However, if the assumed 'large amount of published (academic) work' was referenced, then per above I would change my vote to keep
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: I have to say, I'm ashamed at the shoddiness of people's due diligence here.  This guy has over 70 publications and has written/cowritten 3 books http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/002-9231694-7637625?%5Fencoding=UTF8&dym=0&search-type=ss&index=stripbooks%3Arelevance-above&field-keywords=Christopher%20Winship.  He's a full professor at Harvard with a named chair (not the same as chair of the department -- a named professorship is a professorship that comes with its own funding and is considered prestigious to get... though at a well-funded school like Harvard, it may be more the rule than the exception).  He was the chair of the department from 1998-2001.  He was also the chair of the Sociology department at Northwestern from 1988-1992.  This guy is an ''accomplished'' academic, nowhere near run-of-the-mill.  He meets criteria 3 and 4 of  easily, and arguably criteria 2 and 8 as well
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROFTEST)

Comment: per , doesn't meet the criteria therein and Wikipedia:Notability (academics) is proposed, not accepted guideline.  Even if you choose to apply it, he only meets "Receiving full professorship at a prestigious university, or receiving a named professorship at a reputable university, '''may be''' considered an award or honor under criterion 8
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)