Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johanna Booyson (2nd nomination)


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The result was revert to redirect. Jujutacular (talk) 22:09, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Johanna Booyson
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Non-notable supercentenarian. No reliable sources can be found to establish notability. Any useful information is already available (and sourced) in both Oldest people and List of African supercentenarians. CommanderLinx (talk) 17:25, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Keep Person was for a time the oldest living person, which makes her notable. If she had never held that title, that'd be one thing, but the fact that she held that title makes her notable. DN-boards1 (talk) 17:51, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * There is no significant coverage in reliable sources and she clearly fails WP:BLP1E as she is only notable for her age. She is, however, notable for inclusion in a list, of which she is in several. The only source used for the article (I removed "Oldest Human Beings" as it is not reliable) is a mention in a list which does not establish notability. If you remove the unsourced information and trivia from the article you are left with a single sentence: "Johanna Booyson (January 17, 1857 – June 16, 1968) of Belfast, Mpumalanga is a South African supercentenarian who was briefly the oldest person in the world." Nothing more than what is easily available in Oldest people and other "list of" tables mentioned above. CommanderLinx (talk) 07:49, 10 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete No evidence of meeting WP:N due to lack of multiple, non-trivial references in reliable, third-party sources. The fact that she was World's Oldest Person in and of itself is irrelevant for determining if she should have a stand-alone article, since there's no Wikipedia policy on the oldest anything being automatically notable by the encyclopedia's standards (also based on long-term consensus, including most recently the redirecting of this World's oldest person). Thus we default to the general notability guidelines. Canadian   Paul  17:24, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete As per WP:Notability (people): People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject. Article contains trivial information. Isambard Kingdom (talk) 19:55, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of South Africa-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:01, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:01, 11 October 2015 (UTC)


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