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The result was delete. bd2412 T 23:59, 26 May 2019 (UTC) reply

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Never held office higher than the Franklin Parish (Current population: around 20,000) commission so fails WP:NPOL. The sources - which are mostly either unlinked local news articles, obituaries (most of which aren't even for him), and election results- do not support a WP:GNG pass. GPL93 ( talk) 22:53, 19 May 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mississippi-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 23:10, 19 May 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 23:10, 19 May 2019 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 23:11, 19 May 2019 (UTC) reply

• Delete per nom. (Incidentally, the motivation for creating this article puzzles me.) -- Hoary ( talk) 06:48, 20 May 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete. As always with Billy Hathorn content, the motivation was "every local politician in Louisiana automatically passes NPOL #2 if I can find an obituary" — but as always, Billy was and is wrong. The notability test for people at this level of prominence is the reception of a significant volume of journalism, expanding beyond the purely local and thus marking him out as significantly more notable than most of his peers. But literally none of the references here show that at all: as usual, it's referenced to a mix of Find-a-Grave directory entries, raw tables of election results, incompletely cited newspaper stuff that's impossible to verify what it even was, and purely tangential verification of stray facts about other people that completely fails to even mention Baker at all. This is not how you make a county commissioner notable enough, and never has been. Bearcat ( talk) 16:25, 22 May 2019 (UTC) reply
• Delete Per Bearcat. The article is about a clearly unnotable individual. Newshunter12 ( talk) 11:45, 26 May 2019 (UTC) reply

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