Deletion of Michael Perfit

Comment: Passes #C1 and #C5
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:PROF)

Comment: In addition to satisfying #C1 and #C5, the subject is also an elected fellow of the Geological Society of America (I added a ref), so also passes #C3. Suggest an early close
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:PROF||WP:PROF)

Comment: Over 10,000 citations, and an h-index of 56, and an elected fellow of the GSA, he clearly passes |NACADEMIC
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NACADEMIC)

Comment: Maybe simply being a professor is not enough, but being a ''distinguished'' professor certainly is, and I cited the guideline that says so when I contested the  tag. The length of time since this was edited, and the length of the article, have no bearing whatsoever on whether it should be deleted
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Proposed deletion (WP:PROD)

Comment: The editor who contested the PROD did so with reference to a notability guideline, which it would have been useful to refer to before bringing it to AfD. The subject is a distinguished professor, and so meets #C5
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: With over 10,000 GS cites a clear pass of rof#C1. A misguided nomination
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P)

Comment: meets  for reasons given by others above, article has been improved to show this (also meets , well known books, with multiple reviews (others are available) cited in the article), can a |mopper please put this afd to sleep? or better still the nominator (hi {{u|MensanDeltiologist}}:)) could close it early, btw, nominator may like to have another look at the following: ,  (especially as the prod was contested), and  (that has |consensus
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:NAUTHOR||WP:ADMIN||WP:ARTN||WP:BEFORE||WP:PROF||WP:CONSENSUS)

Comment: The article does a poor job of making a case for meeting , but a search through Google Scholar shows that he easily meets 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:NPROF)

Comment: This is the type of "article" that  in its present form fails to prevent from appearing in the encyclopedia. No reliable, |independent sources from which to establish notability. The most newspaper coverage I've found of this subject is in local Florida papers where he was occasionally quoted when a volcano fires up somewhere in the world (but none in the last 20 years though), or mentioned as recently as 2007 as being a mentor for science fair participants. All of his Google Scholar citations are from multi-author papers - nothing independently notable. This will sit here forever, never being improved beyond a stub
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:IS)