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The result was delete. KTC (talk) 20:49, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alberta Davis[edit]

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I'm not sure about the notability of this person. First, it's not clear where the basis for her being a claimant is from and whether or not the claim is or isn't real: there's no source that seemingly disputes this article. Note that if true, her age would make her not just the oldest American ever but the oldest person ever by years. The fact that the story misses that tells me it's probably not particularly reliable about her "ranking" so to speak especially given the title of the Atlanta Journal piece ("After 109 or 118 years ....") which make more sense. So we are left with either the world's oldest person that no one really knows about or a person who should have been the oldest American I think or someone who died at 109 which is sad but not particularly notable here. Ricky81682 (talk) 06:33, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete "Not including immigrants, Alberta had been the oldest ostensible American from 2001 until her death in 2007, an extraordinarily long time, and the first person to claim to be 125 years old made by a United States born person since 1995." What a joke. Fanboy fancruft if ever there was such. Local-only coverage of a charlatan. EEng (talk) 09:24, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete She's really old. This isn't notable. We don't even know how old. Delete it.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 09:53, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Human3015^TALK 10:29, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Human3015^TALK 10:29, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Longevity Claims. The age she claimed fits within the realm of possibility but is extremely unlikely. 930310 (talk) 17:51, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete "After 109, or 118, years Alberta Davis passes" is the title of one of our 3 "sources". Even without a link to the article, the headline sums up the problem nicely. Fails WP:GNG. Filled with "horse race" information which makes no claim to accuracy. David in DC (talk) 20:54, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as her main claim to fame is over estimating her age. I get some people lose track of their birthday but you would know if you were 9 years older then your documents suggest. Legacypac (talk) 03:25, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Non-notable person who made an unsubstantiated "oldest living native-born American" claim. Apparently, even the sources for the claim call the validity of such claim into question (see Atlanta Journal Constitution headline), and the apparent original research WP:OR from U.S. Census records (or was it from the offline source(s) we can't read?) In any event, this article and subject have multiple problems per WP:GNG, WP:V, and WP:OR, which cannot be cured with simple editing. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 22:44, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.