Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/H. L. Willis
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
— User:Bearcat, 18:23, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Notability)