Deletion of Ted Frank

Comment: I said I wasn't going to participate in this, but people keep asking my opinion, so I'm here to make a statement.  The reality is that I cannot express an opinion because it will be spun against me either way: if I say the article should be kept, I will be accused of self-promotion, and if I say the article should be deleted, I will be accused of seeking some sort of cover up.  I am certainly amused by the number of !votes that are plainly based on the assumption that I want the article deleted, and seriously considered casting a !vote for keep just to see how many people on both sides changed their mind.  (So maybe I do want the article kept?  Or am I just saying that to encourage delete votes?)  I hope I have now sufficiently sown enough confusion about my hidden desires that editors will now be forced to make their decisions and discuss their reasoning on the basis of  and other Wikipedia policies rather than lobbying for or against what I want
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: I am somewhat puzzled by the existence of this AfD, and some of the "delete" votes and comments. I tend to have a resaonably high bar for notability, but this person clearly meets  without much serious argument, both from the article and its sources, and from a cursory examination of media mentions and authorship of widely-read material. While I assume good faith in the nomination, I suspect that a lot of the deletion arguments are based on Wikipedia politics, and that has no place here at all
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)