Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Totaro Murakami

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The result was delete. J04n(talk page) 18:37, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Totaro Murakami[edit]

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No evidence of meeting WP:N's requirement of nontrivial coverage in multiple, reliable, third-party sources. The only coverage I could find in either English or Japanese was several iterations of his obituary (which mention little more than his death and that he was Japan's oldest man) and a handful of other trivial references. Long-standing precedent is that simply being the oldest person in a country is not sufficienty to meet the general notability guidelines and sustain an article (most recent example), thus the extent of coverage (or lack thereof) is the issue here. Normally a redirect to a list might work, but he wasn't even a supercentenarian, so I'm not certain where he would be redirected to. Canadian Paul 20:20, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:55, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:55, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I'm afraid that being super-old is not a claim to notability. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 02:02, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. In the absence of any in-depth coverage, this surely comes under WP:BIO1E - someone notable for just a fleeting moment. --DAJF (talk) 02:06, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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