Deletion of Marc Edwards (civil engineering professor)

Comment: The article's content may be an issue, but that should be addressed via editing, not AfD. In addition to holding a named professorship ( #5), he's a MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow ( #2), and has published numerous highly cited research papers &ndash; WoS shows 63 articles having cites 70, 70, 64, 58 (h-index 19) which is outstanding for an area of civil engineering ( #1). This evidence is conclusive and holding this AfD open any longer will only waste others' time. Thanks
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:PROF||WP:PROF)

Comment: Clearly meets  notability guideline—Edwards holds a named chair at Virginia Tech, one of the nation's premier technical institutions. http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2004/08/2004-368.html That meets criterion 5 of PROF, so that's more or less an instant "in".  Plus, the information about the controversy suggests that there's sufficient reliable, independent sources to write an article about the subject. The article may have  issues and badly needs a copy-edit, but neither is a deletable offense.  There ''may'' also be  concerns, but the PROF notability may counterweight that
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:UNDUE||WP:BLP1E)

Comment: It is clear that Edwards is notable - the MacArthur award alone is enough to satisfy both  and . It is true that the current text of the article is not balanced and there are significant  problems, but I think the way to deal with it is to change the article rather than to delete it
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:BIO||WP:WEIGHT)