Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of living former members of the New Zealand Parliament elected earliest

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:57, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of living former members of the New Zealand Parliament elected earliest[edit]

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Quite frankly, I cannot wrap my mind around this being an actual topic on Wikipedia. Living former members of the NZ Parliament who were elected more than 40 years ago. We do need frequent reminders that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Surtsicna (talk) 10:54, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and New Zealand. Surtsicna (talk) 10:54, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:55, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOTIINFO. If people really wanted to know this information, all the election dates of former MPs are available on the election articles in which they were first elected. Ajf773 (talk) 11:24, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:INDISCRIMINATE. 'who were elected more than 40 years ago' is a completely arbitrary cut-off point, which will also shift as the article ages. It's also WP:ONESOURCE from one single 1985 book, which miraculously already seems to know which people would still be alive as of June 2023. (Did Nostradamus write it?!). By contrast, List of longest-serving members of the New Zealand Parliament may be said to be defining. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 11:25, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete another one of those “list of famous persons, by non-defining criteria X, by completely arbitrary criteria Y” lists that makes zero sense whatsoever. Dronebogus (talk) 18:05, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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