Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lixion Avila
I really don't know what to do about this one. Of course the nom was correct that the article was just a piece of fancruft. However, the subject might be notable. He does have a PhD (I added a ref), and has published a bunch of academic papers. GS gives him an h-index of 23, with top cites of 230, 179, 169, 134, 122. That's not bad, although I am not sure what the standards in meteorology are. However, many of these papers look more like technical reports to me even if they are called journal articles. He has many articles called "Atlantic hurricane season of YYYY" where YYYY is a given year. I may be unfair but to an outside observer they look rather similar in structure, more like technical/statistical reports than research articles. He is an elected fellow of the American Meteorological Society (I added a ref). So perhaps one could make a case for passing  here, although it looks iffy to me. In terms of /, he is a weatherman, so naturally there are lots of hits in GNews. Most of these seem to be mentions of him reporting the weather. However, I did find at least one biographical NBC news-story specifically about himhttp://www.nbcnews.com/id/26595249/ns/weather/t/cuban-born-forecaster-leaves-emotion-outside/#.V1XZ1ldTqWU. There may be others. He did get some awards within NOAA and NHC (I added a ref to one of them and they are all mentioned in his staff profile page http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/staff/Avila_bio_2015.pdf). These awards don't seem to me to be sufficiently prominent to confer notability but I may be wrong. The profile page also claims that he was twice nominated "an Emmy Award for his participation in a hurricane program preparedness". Haven't found independent confirmation of that. He does have an IMDB entryhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043157/, although there isn't much there. All in all, I am still stuck in neutral here
— User:Nsk92, 21:47, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:GNG||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)