Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Misao Okawa (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete and redirect to List of Japanese supercentenarians. Tone 17:12, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Misao Okawa[edit]

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No independent notability besides her exceptional longevity. This person's entry in the list of Japanese supercentenarians is enough, per WP:NOPAGE. I performed a redirect on 8 November but it was reverted on 9 November, thus I'm seeking consensus to re-instate the redirect. Many similar articles about non-notable people who lived over 110 years were recently merged or deleted. — JFG ^talk 04:01, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete a non-notable oldster.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:16, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete In her own words, if someone asked me why anyone would attempt to write a stand-alone article about her, "I wonder about that too." No meaningful information here, therefore we're left with the ever-present WP:NOPAGE. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 04:32, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 04:37, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 04:37, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This article fails WP:GNG and WP:BIO1E because there is only WP:ROUTINE coverage of her that fails to demonstrate notability and there is no notability guideline that "the oldest x" is notable. The content of the article is pretty much just trivia fluff about her family, health, and age records for various other people or jurisdictions. Classic desperate padding to try to avoid WP:NOPAGE. A list entry is all she needs and indeed, she already has three. Newshunter12 (talk) 05:09, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
keep She was the 5th oldest verified person ever at the time of her death. She is definitely notable RightGot (talk) 16:28, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No policy says that just having a pulse for an unusually long time is inherently notable. Even supercentenarians are subject to the same threshold of notability as everything else; significant coverage in secondary sources, which is not the case here. Simply reaching an arbitrary age is not, itself, cause for a standalone article. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 18:46, 13 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.