Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ethel Wood (supercentenarian)

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The result was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:06, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ethel Wood (supercentenarian)

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This person's only claim to notability was reaching an advanced age. Sources offers no significant detail about her life and deeds. She will soon be too "young" to appear among the top 100 British supercentenarians, because she is already in the last slot there (#100). Nothing to preserve. — JFG ^talk 10:31, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 18:04, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 18:04, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete 9th oldest person in the UK? Got a kick out of this odd statement "Ethel died suddenly on 19 August 2011, aged 110 years, 215 days" User:EEng might want to use that. Has got to be one of the longest sudden deaths on record. Legacypac (talk) 09:35, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
WP:ASTONISHME#sleep. E Eng 12:50, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
LOL. That does seem to fit perfectly with the others. Newshunter12 (talk) 13:29, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This article fails WP:GNG, WP:BIO1E, and WP:NOPAGE. There is no policy that being very old is notable and this article is packed with longevity fancruft like the legal status of where she was born, and if she had lived four more months she would have made a longevity record. There is nothing to preserve about this woman, including this WP:PERMASTUB, given that she will soon slip off the list of British supercentenarians. Newshunter12 (talk) 10:29, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete under NOPAGE, and there's probably no list for her to go to. The geography lesson on Guernsey underscores the stupidity of all these "oldest in X country/region" categorizations. E Eng 13:12, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete notable only for single criteria, similar to other few recently nominated subjects. Rzvas (talk) 08:07, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep Ethel Wood is notable and deserves an article because she was the oldest supercentenarian born in the 20th in the tiny Channel Island of Guernsey. Guernsey is not a part of the United Kingdom, and she should not be ranked among supercentarians born in the United Kingdom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dthomsen8 (talk • contribs) 15:29, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Start a Gofundme drive for a monument in her name on ye old Balliwick, then. Wikipedia is not a memorial. — JFG ^talk 20:07, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What policy or guideline says "oldest supercentenarian born in the 20th century in Guernsey is notable"? CommanderLinx (talk) 11:29, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Well, John Smith is the oldest supercentenarian in the even tinier Principality of Sealand. Sealand is not a part of the United Kingdom (or anything else) so he should not be ranked among supercentarians born in the United Kingdom (or anywhere else). So he deserves an article too. E Eng 14:03, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This reeks of longevity fancruft that strains to pad this article such as "ninth oldest" in the country and the unrelated and unwanted geography lesson. Fails WP:GNG, WP:PERMASTUB and WP:NOPAGE. Off to a fantastic start with source 1 not mentioning her at all. And it gets better with sources 2 and 3 are articles because they're both from Essex which is local coverage because she retired to the area in the 1990s. This article tells us more about Guernsey than it does about her. There is nothing to say about her other than she was born, worked as a teacher, got old and then died. Nothing to preserve and no redirect is needed. CommanderLinx (talk) 11:29, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete . Some of the claims at these longevity articles read like parody. The claim to notability in the lede of this article is: "At the age of 110, Wood was the ninth-oldest verified person who died in the United Kingdom following the death of 112-year-old Margaret Fish on 12 March 2011." Seriously?E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:13, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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