 *When I declined your submission, is was about two paragraphs long and had no citations.  It did not mention any of the facts that you've mentioned as evidence of the guy's notability in your post here.  I would encourage you to read our standards on sourcing, expand the citations on the page a bit (although they're better than they were when I rejected it, it'd still be a lot more useful if they had newspaper names etc in them.)  Your AfC submission is in much better shape than it was when I looked at it last, and is close to what we would reasonably expect a new article to be - infinitely closer than when I reviewed it  Keep in mind I reviewed your submission sixteen months ago, and four other people have declined it after I did.   