Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Barkley Means
and merge per above. He seems to have met  but verification is hard to come by. However, it is verified that he was a department chair at a major university http://www.temple.edu/bulletin/archive/webarchive/ugbulletin98/cas/faculty_cas_part1.html#cl, and that would normally be enough per . (I am adding that reference to the article, so it is no longer an unsourced BLP.) He gets a number of mentions at Google News archive, unusual for someone in his field, but they are mostly behind paywalls http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22John+B.+Means%22+&btnG=Search+Archives&scoring=a. He founded and led a society but it's not clear how notable the society is under Wikipedia standards
— User:MelanieN, 05:08, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:ACADEMIC||WP:ACADEMIC (Wikipedia:Notability)