The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was Procedural Close. This debate was closed as a non-admin closure as Keep, and that seems to match the consensus here. But then, over a month later, the editor undid the close and relisted the debate. Meanwhile, a second debate at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kathleen Snavely (2nd nomination) was closed as a redirect. So the result is that the article is redirected to
List of Irish supercentenarians, and this can again be closed.
UltraExactZZSaid~
Did 14:04, 1 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Longevity is not a reason for inclusion here. Wikipedia is not a directory of longest living people
FiddleFaddle 19:58, 14 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Redirect (and consider a merger, in part) to
List of Irish supercentenarians. I would not be opposed to short capsule biographies in articles such as this, as are present in
List of German supercentenarians. But I don't think the project is well-served by separate articles for by-country record holders.
Squeamish Ossifrage (
talk) 21:47, 14 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. Being the oldest ever person from an entire nation is notable. Nominator has proposed a number of articles be deleted (
[1][2][3][4][5][6]), including well sourced articles that clearly pass
WP:GNG, for no reason other than "
I just don't like it". --
Ollie231213 (
talk) 22:31, 15 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Speedy Keep Non-policy based deletion nomination. --
I am One of Many (
talk) 05:05, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete. I note that
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Koto Okubo (2nd nomination) considered being the world's oldest woman overall (as opposed as to her, the world's oldest
Irish emigrant) was insufficient for a separate article. She wasn't even the oldest Irish person but she was the oldest person who happened to be born in Ireland and left when she was 19 to the US. This is trivia. She's only been that person since perhaps 2012 but I would not say that we could justify similar articles about people who left Ireland in say the 1800s and lived a long time so the fact that she's the most recent winner of this cross-section of trivia doesn't make her notable. --
Ricky81682 (
talk) 09:03, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete - I realized that I gave my vote in haste, and mostly because of the fact that the nominator tagged many "long living" humans citing
WP:NOTDIR. Taking into account the notability claimed in the article, as well as Wikipedia's policies, I believe that this person does pass
WP:GNG and
WP:BASIC (perhaps
WP:ANYBIO if the person won an award?), but this article also falls under
WP:1E, in that this person (had she died at an average age) would have otherwise not been notable at all. All of the sources provided in the article, as well as other sources I found, only mention this person's death. As pointed out by Ricky81682, AfD's in the past have come to a consensus to delete articles of people just like this one. Per
WP:GNG and
WP:BASIC, this person is notable. But,
WP:1E is meant to be a check against people who pass the "
notable test". Instead of each long-living person having their own article, they could instead be mentioned in an article regarding long-living persons.
~Oshwah~ (talk)(contribs) 22:54, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:BLP1E as she is only notable for her age. Every source in the article is about her being the oldest Irish person. This fact is easily seen in the table at
List of Irish supercentenarians, as is her name, age and country. A standalone article is not needed as it duplicates information already there.
CommanderLinx (
talk) 12:25, 18 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment Longevity is blatantly not one event. The sources about her being the oldest Irish person A) Confer notability and B) Give more details than just "she was the oldest Irish person ever", so there is more information than there is at
List of Irish supercentenarians, again justifying a standalone article. Yet more attempts to destroy longevity-related articles by those involved in the WOP project
WP:BATTLEGROUND. Thankfully uninvolved editors can see sense. --
Ollie231213 (
talk) 23:46, 18 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Look at the
WP:WOP guidelines for biographies. While there are several sources, look at the headlines for each of them. They are all about her being the oldest Irish person. So she is clearly only notable for her age (being the oldest from Ireland) and therefore belongs in a list and not a standalone article. Half this article is trivia about her longevity and the rest is pretty much a name, age and country. Not really much more than what is available in other longevity articles.
CommanderLinx (
talk) 17:30, 21 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Tentative Keep. Article meets notability in my eyes, but it might be better overall to merge this with
List of Irish supercentenarians due to its brevity and the fact that its notability is directly tied to Snavely being the oldest person from Ireland in her lifetime.
Yiosie2356 19:31, 18 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep Nominator has not cited a specific policy in their justification as to why this article should be deleted. The article is well sourced, indicating that the person is notable.
Bodgey5 (talk) 19:36, 21 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Contested closure, relisting
sst✈(discuss) 00:01, 1 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
sst✈(discuss) 00:01, 1 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. The oldest ever person from a country seems notable enough to me. --
Necrothesp (
talk) 12:01, 1 December 2015 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was Procedural Close. This debate was closed as a non-admin closure as Keep, and that seems to match the consensus here. But then, over a month later, the editor undid the close and relisted the debate. Meanwhile, a second debate at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kathleen Snavely (2nd nomination) was closed as a redirect. So the result is that the article is redirected to
List of Irish supercentenarians, and this can again be closed.
UltraExactZZSaid~
Did 14:04, 1 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Longevity is not a reason for inclusion here. Wikipedia is not a directory of longest living people
FiddleFaddle 19:58, 14 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Redirect (and consider a merger, in part) to
List of Irish supercentenarians. I would not be opposed to short capsule biographies in articles such as this, as are present in
List of German supercentenarians. But I don't think the project is well-served by separate articles for by-country record holders.
Squeamish Ossifrage (
talk) 21:47, 14 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. Being the oldest ever person from an entire nation is notable. Nominator has proposed a number of articles be deleted (
[1][2][3][4][5][6]), including well sourced articles that clearly pass
WP:GNG, for no reason other than "
I just don't like it". --
Ollie231213 (
talk) 22:31, 15 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Speedy Keep Non-policy based deletion nomination. --
I am One of Many (
talk) 05:05, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete. I note that
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Koto Okubo (2nd nomination) considered being the world's oldest woman overall (as opposed as to her, the world's oldest
Irish emigrant) was insufficient for a separate article. She wasn't even the oldest Irish person but she was the oldest person who happened to be born in Ireland and left when she was 19 to the US. This is trivia. She's only been that person since perhaps 2012 but I would not say that we could justify similar articles about people who left Ireland in say the 1800s and lived a long time so the fact that she's the most recent winner of this cross-section of trivia doesn't make her notable. --
Ricky81682 (
talk) 09:03, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete - I realized that I gave my vote in haste, and mostly because of the fact that the nominator tagged many "long living" humans citing
WP:NOTDIR. Taking into account the notability claimed in the article, as well as Wikipedia's policies, I believe that this person does pass
WP:GNG and
WP:BASIC (perhaps
WP:ANYBIO if the person won an award?), but this article also falls under
WP:1E, in that this person (had she died at an average age) would have otherwise not been notable at all. All of the sources provided in the article, as well as other sources I found, only mention this person's death. As pointed out by Ricky81682, AfD's in the past have come to a consensus to delete articles of people just like this one. Per
WP:GNG and
WP:BASIC, this person is notable. But,
WP:1E is meant to be a check against people who pass the "
notable test". Instead of each long-living person having their own article, they could instead be mentioned in an article regarding long-living persons.
~Oshwah~ (talk)(contribs) 22:54, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:BLP1E as she is only notable for her age. Every source in the article is about her being the oldest Irish person. This fact is easily seen in the table at
List of Irish supercentenarians, as is her name, age and country. A standalone article is not needed as it duplicates information already there.
CommanderLinx (
talk) 12:25, 18 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment Longevity is blatantly not one event. The sources about her being the oldest Irish person A) Confer notability and B) Give more details than just "she was the oldest Irish person ever", so there is more information than there is at
List of Irish supercentenarians, again justifying a standalone article. Yet more attempts to destroy longevity-related articles by those involved in the WOP project
WP:BATTLEGROUND. Thankfully uninvolved editors can see sense. --
Ollie231213 (
talk) 23:46, 18 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Look at the
WP:WOP guidelines for biographies. While there are several sources, look at the headlines for each of them. They are all about her being the oldest Irish person. So she is clearly only notable for her age (being the oldest from Ireland) and therefore belongs in a list and not a standalone article. Half this article is trivia about her longevity and the rest is pretty much a name, age and country. Not really much more than what is available in other longevity articles.
CommanderLinx (
talk) 17:30, 21 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Tentative Keep. Article meets notability in my eyes, but it might be better overall to merge this with
List of Irish supercentenarians due to its brevity and the fact that its notability is directly tied to Snavely being the oldest person from Ireland in her lifetime.
Yiosie2356 19:31, 18 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep Nominator has not cited a specific policy in their justification as to why this article should be deleted. The article is well sourced, indicating that the person is notable.
Bodgey5 (talk) 19:36, 21 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Contested closure, relisting
sst✈(discuss) 00:01, 1 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
sst✈(discuss) 00:01, 1 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. The oldest ever person from a country seems notable enough to me. --
Necrothesp (
talk) 12:01, 1 December 2015 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.