Deletion of D. N. Samarasekera

Comment: should have been a procedural delete in that the article's creator is proposing the article be deleted. Clearly fails to satisfy the requirements of /
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NSCHOLAR||WP:ANYBIO)

Comment: per  #5: {{tq|The person has held a named chair appointment or distinguished professor appointment at a major institution of higher education and research, ''or an equivalent position in countries where named chairs are uncommon''.}} Prestigious chairs at American universities tend to be named; equivalent chairs at universities elsewhere in the world tend not to be. This is why the second clause exists; otherwise this whole section would be biased in favour of American academics. It's amazing how many editors (as all three above) conveniently ignore this clause and fixate only on the "named chair" one. He holds ''the'' Chair of Surgery (not just a personal chair) and is also a senior professor, which probably meets the "distinguished professor" criterion too (again, this latter tends to be an American thing).https://www.res.cmb.ac.lk/surgery/dn.samarasekera
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: The position doesn't look to be comparable to a named chair (in particular, there is another person in the https://med.cmb.ac.lk/surgery/staff/ small surgery department of the University of Colombo with a chair professor of surgery).  Citations are weak for  C1, no other sign of notability
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPROF)

Comment: I agree that his GS profile is too weak of #1 and that he does not have a named chair, so NPROF#5 doesnt apply. Also no indication of any awards and the memberships (Royal college of surgeons) are not selective enough
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPROF)

Comment: I agree with Necrothesp: having held "the Chair in Surgery" (more than just a personal professorship) at a significant university outside the United States is indicative of meeting criterion 5 of 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: The newspaper article about the legal squabble over whether he was qualified to be given his post over a seemingly-more-qualified competitor http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2015/03/15/professor-of-surgery-blunder/, the only independent source in the article, makes interesting reading, but I don't think it's enough for -type notability. And I agree with the previous comments that we don't have any real suggestion of -notability; it seems like his post is more or less a standard professorship, not one at the level of a distinguished professorship, and being department chair is also too low an administrative position for automatic notability
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:PROF)