Deletion of J. William Hornsby

Comment: this person was mayor of a growing city of over 100,000 residents, now almost 180K. There's |some potential sources online
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE)

Comment: without prejudice against recreation in the future if somebody can do better than this. Newport News is certainly a large enough city that a ''well-sourced'' article about a mayor could be kept, but it's not so large or important that the need to keep articles about its mayors would ''override'' the need for the articles to contain any ''substance''. The notability test for mayors is not just the fact that one source can be shown to verify that he existed as a mayor — it is the ability to write and |reliably source a ''substantive'' article about his political ''significance'', containing information about specific things he did in the mayor's chair, specific effects he had on the development of the city, and on and so forth. If somebody wants to tackle actually improving the article to meet the required standard, I'm not opposed to that — but without any access to archived Virginia media coverage from the 1970s I'm not the guy who can do it, and just having been mayor doesn't entitle him to an instant notability freebie in the ''absence'' of anybody actually doing it
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)