Well thank you for your comprehensive answer You certainly didnt need to provide an explanation and Im sorry if I gave you that impression but your comments explain a lot so there is some value there Circumstances like yours can cause problems when we have guidelines like WPQUACK Im sure you understand what I mean  Im not an admin and so cant and wouldnt really close the AFD though as a nonadmin I can relist it to encourage more people to look at the article and did My impression at this stage is that most editors seem to think Mr Roberts doesnt meet our general notability guideline because he hasnt received enough coverage in reliable sources That he has won an award for his blog wouldnt normally make him notable unless it was a very significant award Winning a notable award doesnt necessarily make someone notable either But its also possible that someone who isnt notable now might very well be notable in the future We call that WPTOOSOON In cases like that the best bet would be to ask for the article to be userfied which means it is moved to your own user space until the subject is notable enough for the article to be published in the main article space I have a couple of articles like that sitting in my own userspace   At the end of the day its not really about protecting an article from deletion its about the Wikipedia community protecting the encyclopaedia from the inclusion of everyone and everything ever So we set and adhere to particular standards and things that dont meet those standards even things that might one day meet them are deleted My best suggestion would be that you spend some time editing the articles of some very obviously notable people before trying to create articles for people who might not be That way if one of your articles is taken to AFD at least youll have a much broader understanding of policy and deletion procedures At the moment you seem to be fighting a losing battle and that can be very upsetting especially if people are throwing all sorts of linked acronyms at you that youve never seen