Deletion of Newell W. Spicer

Comment: I think there's something here, there seems to be some off-line sources worth considering and the research is good.  I see no policy violation... seems to me to pass 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: after deletion, sources are too weak to show that he meets GNG. One of the sources ''Wind across the prairie'' is fiction and should not be used as a source in an encyclopedia IMHO.  As it says in  ''if there is enough information in reliable sources to include details about a person's birth, personal life, education and military career, then they most likely warrant a stand-alone article.'' this information is missing from the sources. As a side note this editor has created rather a lot of articles about minor figures from the civil war that might need a bit of scrutiny after this Afd
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NSOLDIER)

Comment: Not seeing any special notability per  or 
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:SOLDIER||WP:GNG)

Comment: as per others above. A bunch of passing mentions does not meet  and I'm not even convinced that those mentions have been correctly paraphrased. That said, I'd be interested to know what the offline sources are to which {{u|Paulmcdonald}} refers. Do those go into any depth or is it basically more of the same? We've got a real problem with the  essay as things stand - if reliable modern sources do not really mention him then that in itself would suggest that he isn't particularly notable
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:HISTRS)

Comment: Unusually well documented for a lieutenant colonel, was clearly of some prominence in frontier Kansas. That he has been mentioned in RS articles years after his disappearance attests to secondary notability, fulfilling . I do not see these as trivial considering that the articles in question have several sentences on Spicer
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)