Deletion of Alan B. Banister

Comment: meets  - flag officer;  ie. "received a well-known and significant award or honor" - awarded two Navy Crosses, plus the Peruvian Cross of Naval Merit (https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/modern-biographical-files-ndl/modern-bios-b/banister-alan-b.html see here);  ie. multiple |sources - https://www.nytimes.com/1963/11/02/archives/alan-b-banister-58-rear-admiral-dies.html NYT obit (from the article), ''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography'' (from above
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:SOLDIER||WP:ANYBIO||WP:BASIC||WP:RS)

Comment: Meets  on two counts as a flag officer and for earning ''two'' Navy crosses;  though having an entry in ''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography'', and  through having widespread coverage in reliable sources
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:SOLDIER||WP:ANYBIO||WP:GNG)

Comment: Has entry in https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_National_Cyclopaedia_of_American_Bio/78FWAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22alan%20boyd%22  The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, thus meeting  #3, in addition to meeting  #1 and #2 due to being a flag officer with two Navy Crosses (multiple second level awards
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ANYBIO||WP:SOLDIER)

Comment: Clearly meets the criteria of  #2 as a flag officer, which
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:SOLDIER)

Comment: I'm not so sure the flag-officer bar is crossed as the article states it was a 'graveyard promotion', a practice where a retired officer in good standing is advanced one rank on death, i.e. he never wore stars while in service/alive. But it ''contributes'' to the potential notability; two Navy Crosses ''is'' a SOLDIER pass, which contributes definitively/further, and there's ''just'' enough on the reference rack to convince me that GNG is ''also'' met, as well as ANYBIO as mentioned above. Each ''individual'' assessment of notability is somewhat weakish but the sum of their parts is that this individual is, in fact, notable. The article is somewhat messy (especially the lede) but |AfD is not for cleanup
Stance: keep
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