Deletion of Lawrence Van Buskirk

Comment: If it was an article about a |living person, I would vote to delete, but this is a historical figure that makes it harder to find sources. I did find content and sources to add the article, and it seems that he was notable within the city for several governmental and other executive roles in the city - as well as a grand king of the Masons. By the way, Bloomington is not a small town. It's the seventh largest city in Indiana
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)

Comment: Bloomington IN is not large enough to hand its mayors an automatic free pass over NPOL #2 just because they exist, the fact that Bloomington is home to a university is not in and of itself to make its mayors special if they weren't personally and sourceably involved in the university's creation, and simply being able to add ''just'' enough sourcing to hand the article a ''technical'' pass of VNPOVNOR — a thing which almost ''anybody'' who ''exists'' could instantly do the moment they've gotten their name into the local newspaper once or twice for doing ''nothing'' that would actually satisfy a Wikipedia inclusion criterion — is ''not'' in and of itself an ''exemption'' from having to actually  the person well enough to get them over the defined |notability criterion for their field of endeavour. But this is ''not'' sourced well enough to satisfy NPOL #2
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:N)

Comment: Thank you very much for adding the sources - this satisfies my  concerns as I had difficulty with my before search (and will start looking at newspapers.com for historical mayors.) However, I'm not going to withdraw the nomination: I still don't think the sourcing is enough for , as the marriage sources are not in-depth and , and the mason sources are substantial but also what you'd expect from the organization - nothing that would make him stand out. I'd like to leave it open to see how others vote. Keep in mind in 1900 Bloomington was only the 34th largest town in Indiana - smaller than Elwood, Brazil and Alexandria - and he was the mayor between 1891-1897, which is one of the problems with our "large enough city" mayoral assumption
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V||WP:GNG||WP:MILL)