Deletion of Joel Hayward (second nomination)

Comment: Subject meets  and |notability criteria. He is notable enough through mentions in textbooks on history, and various other publications as well (I will have to source these
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:N)

Comment: I wish I'd read  more thoroughly before chiming in here.  If I had, I'd have expressed a good deal more umbrage than I did.  First off,  is an '''essay, not''' an official policy.  It also doesn't apply.  The essay primarily talks about disguised ad hominem attacks; one of the examples it uses is "George Washington visited/slept/worked/ate at XYZ; George Washington was a terrible general and a lousy President, he owned slaves, lied about chopping down a cherry tree, and.... (many following paragraphs all about George with little if anything to do with XYZ)." Well that's NOT AT ALL a fair comparison to my rewrite.  Now to be fair, I do agree with the essay's point that it's not fair to put the balancing/expansion burden on others, which is why, despite my desire to be done with this article, I have done some expansion work myself.  However, and I cannot emphasize this enough:  '''More can still be done!''' This article is far from unsalvageable and should be kept
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Coatrack articles (WP:COATRACK||WP:COATRACK)

Comment: Notable historian who meets , regardless of the controversy. Active editors on this job have also been working well and hard to improve this article and remove its imbalances, and were doing so even before its nomination for AfD. Let them keep working
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: While I admit that I do not know which recent changes are being referred to in  and , I do not see anything in these two policies indicating that this article should be deleted. I write this recognizing that the entry once lacked balance. While I believe more emphasis should be placed in Mr Hayward's post-graduate/professional work, I think the balance tag can now be removed. We have now a short, well sourced article on a historian of note
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP||WP:NOT)