Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mathew Beard

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The result was delete. Kurykh 00:50, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mathew Beard[edit]

Wholly unreferenced stub article on someone claimed to be the oldest man ever born in the USA, which is not a bad assertion of notability … but even if there wre some references to support that assertion, there would also need to be some substantial coverage in reliable sources for him to be notable per WP:BIO. I have searched for refs, but didn't expect to find much since he died in 1985: see Google books search, google news search 1, google news search 2 - the search is complicated by the two possible spellings of Matthew/Mathew and the presence of many other Mat(t)hew Beards, though Gnews did throw up two subscription-only hits in old local newspapers which may or may be relevant, but which in either case do not seem substantial.[1][2]
Meanwhile the article consists almost entirely of unsourced speculation about Beard's place in the longevity rankings. He is listed in List of the oldest people#List and in Oldest people#Oldest_men_ever_.28top_10.29, which is quite sufficient unless and until there is something substantive to write about him from reliable sources. There may be printed sources which are not available online, and if they are found then the article could of course be recreated at a later date if substantial coverage is found in reliable sources. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:35, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment And then his case is questionable. Might not be 114. Neal (talk) 18:05, 15 December 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Delete per nom. STORMTRACKER 94 18:29, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per everything after its first "paragraph." --Thin boy 00 @962, i.e. 22:05, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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