Deletion of Rice E. Graves

Comment: this is a tricky one to summarise. The article does not make it clear why the subject is notable and has multiple issues including point of view, referencing, grammar, style and format. Equally I share the nominator's concern that although "plentifully referenced", the bulk of the citations used in the article do seem a little flimsy. Regardless, from a Google book search it seems to me that Graves appears in quite a large number of reliable sources, both historical and modern, although often only in passing or with very little detail. Although I wasn't able to find anything which suggested a reason for his notability, I am prepared to give this one the benefit of the doubt and assume that this consistutes "signficant coverage" under . If kept hopefully someone with knowledge on the subject can bring it up to standard
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: The article needs a lot of work, and needs to be |POV checked; but that is not the point of an AfD. The subject of the article appears to be notable per significant mention in multiple independent reliable sources
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV)

Comment: as notable.  There seems to be enough coverage to satisfy the |general notability guideline irrespective of the essay 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:SOLDIER)