Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Minsho Ozawa

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The result was delete. —Darkwind (talk) 02:40, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Minsho Ozawa[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 sufficient to meet the general notability guidelines and sustain an article, 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 19:48, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:50, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:50, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mediran (t • c) 01:38, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This is a WP:BIO1E case, and the person has not received a sufficient level of in-depth coverage to justify a self-standing biographical article like this. --DAJF (talk) 06:34, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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