Deletion of Belmont Club

Comment: This is a bit of an oddball case. Like academics, the more intellectual bloggers are seldom written ''about'' per se, and more likely to be quoted or cited. In that context, Fernandez is a decently significant public intellectual. The Sunday Times piece describes the pseudonym used by the author on the blog - an indirect tribute. The Weekly Standard piece also gives the blog high praise as an influential military blog - and I fail to see what it being an editorial has to do with anything, for purposes of notability. Here is Salon critiquing Fernandez in the context of press corruption by insurgents in Iraq http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/feature/2004/12/22/executions/index.html, being quoted at length in another Weekly Standard blog http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2007/02/bombing_the_friendship_express.asp, by Michael Barone in US News http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/20/usnews/whispers/main4198302.shtml on the corruption in the US government, co-authoring a contributed feature in the Jerusalem Post with an American brigade commander http://www.jpost.com/Features/InTheSpotlight/Article.aspx?id=93857. This is pretty amazing for a Filipino-born Australian with no official position whatever in the government. Insofar as an encyclopedia is supposed to be about human knowledge and the people who generate it, influential intellects like Fernandez's, and the work they produce deserve a writeup (this is, if you like, a direct analogy to  criterion 7, although Fernandez is ''not'' an academic in the standard sense of the term
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)