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The result was keep. postdlf (talk) 20:10, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of oldest people by year of death[edit]

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Unsourced table about being the oldest person to die in a particular year. No reliable sources can be found stating that X was the oldest to die in Y. Fails WP:V, WP:OR and WP:TRIVIA. PROD declined by User:JoshuaZ because: "sources are on the other lists of long-lived people. someone just needs to move them over here." CommanderLinx (talk) 05:19, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy delete A10 Functionally duplicate of List of the verified oldest people, whose table is sortable by death date. (Probably needs some technical tweaking because it is now sorting by alphabetical order and not chronological order, but still) 野狼院ひさし u/t/c 13:27, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:22, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge/Redirect to List of the verified oldest people, per Hisashiyarouin's rationale. That list is not currently sortable in quite the same way because of the way the dates are formatted, and I'm not sure how to fix that. But the lists do seem to be duplicates. Ivanvector (talk) 18:05, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• keep given that it is the same data at the List of Verified oldest people, the sources need to be moved over from there. Object to redirecting since the current list is not sortable in this way. If someone can find a way to make that list sortable in this way then I'll go with redirecting. JoshuaZ (talk) 03:35, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. Just add ((dts)) to all the dates. 野狼院ひさし u/t/c 07:34, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Compiles information about supercentarians that don't qualify on the modern list. Thus, it serves an independent purpose from the modern list that could not be rectified easily. --Thebirdlover (talk) 11:24, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep but it may need to be renamed for clarity. I haven't compared the names on the list to see the extent that they overlap but the scope of this list is such that the data does not necessarily duplicate list of the verified oldest people. It's a list of years and the oldest person to die that year rather than a list of oldest people organized by year. So for example if the oldest person to die that year was 80, the person would be listed here and not at the other list. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 02:54, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - I see it now. This list is the oldest person to die in each year, the other is a list of the oldest people regardless of year of death (or currently living). They are very similar but not necessarily the same. Ivanvector (talk) 18:43, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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