Deletion of H. L. Willis

Comment: It appears to meet  which doesn't specify that local papers cannot be used to denote Wikipedia notability
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: fails all three criteria of , does not meet criteria for ANYBIO, and fails GNG. For comparison of what it would take to be a notable mayor, look at any mayor of New York City, or most mayors of  Baton Rouge (List of mayors of Baton Rouge, Louisiana), or any mayor of New Orleans (List of mayors of New Orleans
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)

Comment: The amount of coverage appears to meet , even if most of it is from local papers. It's true that not every mayor of every town automatically merits an article, but I believe this one does
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: Smalltown mayor with no strong claim to passing , and none of the non-localized sourcing it would take to make him more notable than the norm for a smalltown mayor. It warrants mention, as well, that the creator has been ''banned'' from editing Wikipedia — although that's not a deletion rationale in and of itself if the article wasn't created by a confirmed sockpuppet ''after'' the original block, it doesn't exactly help the case for retention here either. (To be fair, a mayor's includability is not dependent on the population the city had at the time he was mayor — even New York City once had a population of below 7,000 too — but rather, if a city is large enough ''now'' to hand its mayors an NPOL pass, then ''any'' mayor the place has ever had can have an article, as long as it's properly sourced, ''regardless'' of how big the city was or wasn't in that person's era. But with a population of just 14K today, Pineville still isn't large enough
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)

Comment: does not meet . This is largely a  biography and possibly 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:PSEUDO||WP:MEMORIAL)