Deletion of J. Kenneth Grider

Comment: Per Nsk92's research. http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/KC/lib00143,1161538F4C1F5138.html This may be Kansas City Star obit, or just a death notice. There's enough on him in the sources given for . According to New International Version, there were only 15 on the translation committee of this major work, good evidence of notability if the claim can be sourced
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: I do not yet have a firm opinion about keeping or deleting the article, but the claim (though unreferenced) in the article that he was on the English translation committee for New International Version of the Bible (which, as I understand it, one of the main English translations of the Bible) gives me some pause. There is an obituary about himhttp://www.nts.edu/Websites/nts/Images/pdfs/connection/Winter%202007/josephkennethgrider-obituary.pdf at the Nazarene Theological Seminary website as well as a news-release there about his deathhttp://www.nts.edu/dr-j-kenneth-grider-passes-away. The obituary file mentions several honors: an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1991 from Olivet Nazarene University, and a named lecture series named after him there, established in 1999, as well as the the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Wesleyan Theological Society. I was able to find an independent verification of the latter: vol 34 (1999), no. 2 of Wesleyan Theological Journal (the full content of this volume is available herehttp://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyan_theology/wesleyjournal/1999-wtj-34-2.pdf). Editor's Introduction, on p. 5, mentions that he received the award in March 1999 at the annual meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society. There is also a biographical article about him, ''Tribute to J. Kenneth Grider'' by Paul M. Bassett, pp. 281-286 in that volume. I am not sure if this is sufficient for establishing notability (plus I am not sure if one should be using  or  in a case like this), but it does suggest that a closer look is needed
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:BIO)