Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marie Laure du-Serre-Telmon


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The result was Delete. --MelanieN (talk) 00:38, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Marie Laure du-Serre-Telmon

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The subject of this article fails to meet the standards of WP:N due to lack of multiple, non-trivial references in reliable, third-party sources, nor are there likely to be any because she was only "discovered" almost four decades after her death (thus we would not expect to find coverage in newspapers of the time etc.) 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 and any material of encyclopedic merit can be included on the many longevity-related lists on Wikipedia. Canadian  Paul  21:35, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  Human 3015   TALK    21:44, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions.  Human 3015   TALK    21:44, 16 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails SIGCOV, there being no sources provided whatsoever. Article created by sock of INDEF-blocked user. DerbyCountyinNZ  (Talk Contribs) 22:17, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete No sources that I can see. EEng (talk) 12:14, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Original research and not even verified. -- Ollie231213 (talk) 16:33, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Not a single source included in the article. Bodgey5 (talk) 01:11, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:Pointy article created by now-banned editor. Cites no sources. Even if sourced, there's nothing in the text that even asserts, let alone establishes, notablity. David in DC (talk) 15:28, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep Actually, being "world's oldest" does appear to confer notability... Given the large number of AfDs of centenarians, I think these all need a tentative keep pending review of GNG; or perhaps have all these "oldest person" AfDs consolidated and nominated together. Looks likes the majority of the top 40 names in List of the verified oldest people have articles.  Montanabw (talk)  03:55, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * It doesn't confer notability as that term is defined in our guidelines. Significant coverage in multiple reliable sources, independent of the subject and of one another defines notability here. David in DC (talk) 14:48, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Age of this person is not certified Guinness World Records and Gerontology Research Group.--Inception2010 (talk) 10:42, 21 October 2015 (UTC)


 * 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.