Deletion of James R. Barker

Comment: Any academic who has written http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=16642452546599499166&hl=en&as_sdt=2000 a paper that has attracted over a thousand citations pretty clearly passes  criterion 1. I don't understand how these can be described as "a few" citations
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: WP policy regarding notability of academics, researchers and scholars is determined by rof. Attempts to change this policy should be made on the talk page of that article, not here. Whatever the outcome of this AfD debate, the nominator seems to have done an inadequate job. He finds no references, whereas the first person to wander by and click a link finds 1000 plus (a few citations indeed
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P)