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The result was keep.  Sandstein  12:21, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of the longest-lived United States Governors[edit]

List of the longest-lived United States Governors (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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This is 100% unreferenced original research. There is no intersection between long life and being a state governor at some point in time. Fails WP:NLIST and WP:LISTN Legacypac (talk) 21:37, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:45, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Human3015^TALK  21:49, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Human3015^TALK  21:49, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Human3015^TALK  21:49, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. WP:OR. Not an encyclopedic topic. Pburka (talk) 23:23, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • More specifically, this is an arbitrary intersection of topics. Longevity and political positions are unrelated topics. It's also WP:SYNTHESIS. Pburka (talk) 02:16, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep WP:USEFUL, WP:LISTN--Dangermouse600 (talk) 00:39, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

thank-you for pointing at LISTN which is a great rational to delete thiz page. Legacypac (talk) 01:52, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per most of the the keep arguments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of longest-living state leaders. This is not the strongest of list topics for cross categorizing, but not enough for deleting. Every entry can be referenced to a bio page and the ages are compiled from such. OR doesn't apply to this list in my opinion. There is clearly defined criteria for inclusion with no ambiguity. It's a list of people that are obviously notable and factoring in longevity which is at least arguably notable as well. I see no strongly compelling reason to delete this. RoadView (talk) 01:58, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Living to age 95 or 97 or whatever is not notable at all. Why not a List of US Governors with red hair or ranked by verified height? Legacypac (talk) 02:25, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hair color and height might actually have some relationship to electoral success. Pburka (talk) 02:36, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

but how long someone manages to live after retiring, not so much. Legacypac (talk) 02:51, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Czolgolz (talk) 05:13, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Yet another encyclopedic article that is an appropriate topic for a standalone list. Alansohn (talk) 05:22, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of longest-living state leaders and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of the oldest United States Senators. Star Garnet (talk) 09:17, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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