Deletion of Leonard B. Smith

Comment: Spotting ''Bismarck'' may not be enough to merit an article. The amount of coverage he's gotten for that spotting, however, |is
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: He might pass . GNews turns up a 1981 ''Parade Magazine'' feature about him (and a German counterpart).http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=if4sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wcwFAAAAIBAJ&dq=leonard%20smith%20bismarck&pg=2443%2C1821002  According to a newspaper book reviewhttp://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pJdjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NkwDAAAAIBAJ&dq=leonard%20smith%20bismarck%20battleship&pg=2480%2C2236554, the 1977 book ''The U.S. Navy: An Illustrated History'' contains a "sketch" about him, but I'm unable to verify this independently.  Here's a nice 2006 article from the ''Navy Times''.http://www.navytimes.com/legacy/new/0-NAVYPAPER-1642064.php  Here are some other articles about him, though I'm not sure about the RS status of the sources.http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-american-who-helped-sink-the-bismarck/http://www.islandsweekly.com/opinion/20001849.html And there are hundreds of incidental mentions of him in books and news articles about the ''Bismarck
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: per Necrothesp and  - we have usually kept 'firsts' of this type of person
Stance: keep
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