Deletion of Willard Keith

Comment: to the ship article, USS Willard Keith (DD-775). Does not meet  and notability is not inherited from the ship. In re: arguments that the subject meets : a. the subject does not meet it; and b. SOLDIER is an essay, not even a presumption of notability as an SNG would be
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO||WP:SOLDIER)

Comment: WP:SOLDIER is an |essay and "''Essays have no official status, and do not speak for the Wikipedia community''".  The |guideline  indicates that we should keep the topic as the subject received multiple "''well-known and significant award or honor''".  And the |policy  states that "''If editing can improve the page, this should be done rather than deleting the page
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Essays (WP:ESSAY||WP:GUIDELINE||WP:ANYBIO||WP:POLICY||WP:ATD)

Comment: Played a significant role in a major battle in WW2 and the recipient of the Navy Cross and Purple Heart. It should be enough to satisfy 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:SOLDIER)

Comment: Another failure to comply with 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE)

Comment: to the ship article.  Meets neither  or .  Contrary to many comments on recent AfD's, having a ship named after you has zero to do with notability.  They are political decisions, given as favors to certain politician's as appeasement to their constituencies.  The fact that some people who are notable have ships named after them is a different story
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NSOLDIER||WP:GNG)

Comment: WP:SOLDIER is an essay not a guideline and it doesn't mandate that one of those 8 criteria be satisfied, it says that "It is presumed that individuals will almost always have sufficient coverage to qualify if they" have one of those 8. It is not a requirement.  Having a U.S. Navy Destroyer named after the person is an honor that seems to indicate that the individual is significantly  alone.   I think that satisfies  on its own but his life is covered in depth  in 4 paragraphs https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/willard-keith.html here. The LA Times ran an in-depth story on him on December 14, 1942, an image of which is https://missingmarines.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/keith_ww_the_los_angeles_times_mon__dec_14__1942_.jpg here and previously on November 29, 1942 https://missingmarines.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/keith_ww_the_los_angeles_times_sun__nov_29__1942_-scaled.jpg
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTABLE||WP:GNG)