Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Siegler
The NY Times article goes into a reasonable amount of detail about the subject, and whether it is nominally "about him" or a monetary gift that he inspired is unimportant in my opinion. The significant media coverage of him in connection with this gift, combined with a large enough body of work to meet criterion #1 of  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1429&bih=998&q=%22Mark%20Siegler%22&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=810l1482l0l1737l3l3l0l0l0l0l163l427l0.3l3l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp seals this one for me
— User:VQuakr, 04:56, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:ACADEMIC (Wikipedia:Notability)