Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Evans (supercentenarian)

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The result was delete. Tone 21:15, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

John Evans (supercentenarian) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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No independent notability established beyond his exceptional longevity. We have tables for this. Contrary to the previous and next masculine longevity record-holders, Alphaeus Philemon Cole and Henry Allingham, there is nothing worth preserving in this person's biography. — JFG ^talk 21:57, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per the utter lack of secondary sources, WP:NOTINHERITED, and the usual problems with similar attempts at articles. And, to boot, language in the article reads like a failed attempt to make it seem like getting super old is some kind of sport. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 23:01, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOPAGE and WP:GNG. Longevity is not a contest as this heavily padded article tries to claim and there is no article when you remove the padding about records, other individuals, and the standard longevity secret. There is also no policy or guideline that the "oldest X" is notable, and even GWR didn't find this so called achievement worth continuing to note for a 10 year period after he died. Newshunter12 (talk) 23:23, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 02:34, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 02:34, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per WP:NOPAGE and WP:PERMASTUB. There is no article here. It's just longevity trivia about his predecessors/successors, oldest to get a pacemaker, etc. Entry in a list is enough. And what is one meant to make of this sentence: "Guinness World Records had recognised Evans as the "world's oldest man" in 1989, but let the title lapse after his death, only to bring it back in 2000"? CommanderLinx (talk) 07:19, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Living exceptionally long is not alone grounds for notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:04, 10 November 2018 (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.