Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of oldest living Major League Baseball players (4th nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 07:22, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

List of oldest living Major League Baseball players
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Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. It does not exist to cater to anyone who might wonder who the 46th oldest living Major League Baseball player is. Surtsicna (talk) 09:42, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people, Sports,  and Baseball. Surtsicna (talk) 09:42, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep Passes NLIST. Nominated three previous times and kept each time. Whether you or I might think the topic is "trivial", people are interested in it and reliable sources track and cover it. Baseball Almanac maintains a list here. It seems to be a characteristic that folks care about, and it's a regular subject for reportage whenever someone at or near the top of the list dies, celebrates a birthday, becomes the oldest, etc. Examples: Cunningham, Werber,Hopkins, Hoff, Doerr, Otis, Doscher, Abbey, Hoy, Simmons, O'Neil, Malinosky, Latham. Cbl62 (talk) 10:42, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Although I vote keep, the article needs sourcing! Cbl62 (talk) 10:59, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * It is incredible to me that this thing survived three previous nominations. I must confess I did not see them. How do you even source this thing? Which source says Dick Hall is the 46th oldest living? Forgive me, I am mind-boggled. Surtsicna (talk) 11:15, 3 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom and failing WP:NLIST. When the oldest former MLB (or Negro league) player is called out for the last time, that is noted in his obituary. (Or if it's a slow news day, newspapers will write about whatever the oldest is doing.) However, that does not have any bearing on listing the nth oldest survivors. When the 46th oldest MLB player does something newsworthy, his ranking is not a fact that gets noticed by the media. It is baseball-almanac.com's (and other baseball sites') job to create and maintain lists like that, not Wikipedia's. Or are we also supposed to have a list of the final outs of every world series? Clarityfiend (talk) 11:32, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete indiscriminate information, Wikipedia has been shown multiple times in the past to not be a collection of “list of very old people by occupation they had at some point” articles. Dronebogus (talk) 15:39, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * '''TIME TO PUT SOME SALT ON THIS TURKEY. MurrayGreshler (talk) 15:51, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hold the salt. Salt is appropriate for "pages that have been deleted but repeatedly recreated." This page has been repeatedly kept. Cbl62 (talk) 00:45, 4 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete Sheer statistical trivia of little encyclopedic value. Yes the sources above note the single oldest or second oldest player dying or turning an old age, but that doesn't translate to the notability or significance of the 100 oldest who did something many decades earlier now coincidentally having longevity. Reywas92Talk 17:56, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Indeed, a top 100 seems excessive. A historical list of each person who has held the title of "oldest living Major League Baseball player" would be more appropriate given the focus of the coverage. Cbl62 (talk) 00:45, 4 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per Clarityfiend. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 23:53, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per and .  Nythar  (💬-❄️) 02:28, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Did I just ping Dronebogus? It was a Template:No ping. Sorry if I did, I received a notification that said you were notified. — Nythar  (💬-❄️) 02:31, 9 December 2022 (UTC)


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