Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mariano Lagasca
Searching Google includes many citations, such as http://www.jstor.org/pss/1218855 this (if you're like me and  don't have JSTOR, you can only see a little bit in a Google preview) of his works.  Seems to have been what today we'd consider a prominent and well-published scholar.  Notability should often be treated differently for long-past subjects — we don't often run into the problem of people adding articles promoting people or groups that have been gone for 150 years like we do about contemporary people or groups.  Yes, this was created in violation of a ban, but I don't see deletion of this otherwise valid article for that reason as helping the encyclopedia, so let's |overlook that for now
— User:Nyttend, 05:49, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:IAR (Wikipedia:Ignore all rules)