Deletion of Paul Haygood

Comment:  tells us "Notability requires verifiable evidence". It is not possible to satisfy  without verifiable sources; the article certainly ''does'' fail 
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTE||WP:NOTE)

Comment: at best, unverifiable. There is circumstantial supporting evidence this is a hoax from the article's edit history, with an |SPA author and several single-day editors (SDAs). Those who have done more than maintenance edits are
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (WP:SPA)

Comment: Appears that the article fails |notability. I also drew a blank trying every way I could think of to locate electronically available resources on this person. Even though Virginia Military Institute|VMI's archives have references to the class of 1910, his name doesn't appear. And similar results from locale, geneology, military history, etc. searches. Part of the problem for someone deceased in 1941 is that much information is likely contained on the Deep Web|deep web, if it's been digitized at all, or in hard copy accessible only the old-fashioned way by travel, libraries, books, etc. If the content of the article were true, I would still expect to have found some more traces of the man's long lifetime of work. Perhaps
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)

Comment: I agree this is almost certainly a hoax.  Even if it weren't a hoax, there are no references.  But I strongly disagree with the assertion in the nomination that the article fails .  If we believed the article was accurate is would comply with , while lapsing from .    The article states: ''"but notes taken on his lectures... as well as short essays and memorandums he had prepared for the Marine Corps were gathered and studied by a number of young scholars of counterinsurgency."''  If this were not a hoax we would find traces of these influential essays and memoranduums.  I was going to cite the unverifiability of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College as another clue this was a hoax.  It turns out this institution does exists
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTE||WP:NOTE||WP:VER)