Deletion of Ralph Millet

Comment: I have no idea who Linda Law is, or why she was in the New York Times, and I have no idea why you are using her as point of comparison here as she has not had an article written about here here in Wikipedia, nor has this non-existent article ever been put through AFD for deletion.  So such a comparison seems to be completely irrelevant.  Amanda Knox is completely apples and oranges so why bring that up here?  The fact that The NY Times accepts paid death announcements is irrelevant as this particular obituary is not part of their paid death announcements.  It is an article that they decided to run.  This makes it an independent reliable source that has exercised its editorial oversight in the selection of subjects for print.  That is the very definition of the type of |reliable source that is need to establish |notability
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS||WP:N)