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The result was delete. Sandstein 17:32, 15 May 2019 (UTC) reply

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:NPOL. Sources used are obituaries, govt. records, or routine local coverage. GPL93 ( talk) 16:32, 8 May 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 17:19, 8 May 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 17:19, 8 May 2019 (UTC) reply

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• Delete Subject was mayor of Ruston, Louisiana, estimated population 22,000 in 2016. Mayors of cities this size usually need to show national or international coverage to meet WP:NPOL. -- Enos733 ( talk) 18:14, 8 May 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete. Ruston is not large enough to hand all of its mayors an automatic inclusion freebie just because they existed as mayors — but as usual for Billy Hathorn stuff, the assumption here was that as soon as he could find a legacy.com obituary, the topic had met GNG and none of the other sources had to fulfill any further standards of reliability or independence or substance. But that never has been, still isn't, and isn't ever going to become how this works: the notability test for a mayor hinges on the depth of journalistic coverage he can show, not on whether his family placed a death announcement in the classifieds or not. Bearcat ( talk) 13:05, 9 May 2019 (UTC) reply

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