Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of living recipients of the George Cross

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The result was redirect to List of George Cross recipients. In case any content needs to be merged it can be found in the page history. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 11:11, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

List of living recipients of the George Cross[edit]

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Fails WP:LISTN as reliable sources don't treat living George Cross recipients as a group distinct from other GC recipients (or at least no more than they typically distinguish between the living and the dead). They are distinguished from dead recipients in that they're entitled to an annuity from the Crown, but I don't think it's in any way notable that the pension ends at death.

This page is essentially a WP:NOTMIRROR of the VC & GC Association's membership database. The information is also duplicated at List of George Cross recipients. The only unique information is the smaller list of recently deceased recipients, but that's non-encyclopedic, marginal WP:MEMORIAL, and could easily be incorporated into the larger list in an encyclopedic manner by listing birth and death dates for all recipients. I'd be happy to redirect to the full list, but the maintainers of this list opposed a merge proposal, so I'm bringing it here. pburka (talk) 22:24, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. pburka (talk) 22:24, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. pburka (talk) 22:24, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. pburka (talk) 22:24, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment There is a simultaneous merge discussion on the talk page at [1] LizardJr8 (talk) 02:46, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to main list per above. This is an identical situation to the list of living medal of honor recipients that just got deleted. Dronebogus (talk) 11:53, 19 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to main list, as it's redundant. The secondary table of those who have died in the past five years is arbitrary, as well as annoying to maintain. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:39, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 09:19, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 09:20, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect as per the logic of the closer of the recent Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War (2nd nomination), pointless, duplicative, diminishing list. Mztourist (talk) 09:56, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per above.4meter4 (talk) 15:20, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per above Masterhatch (talk) 23:30, 24 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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