Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maurice Starkey

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The result was delete‎. asilvering (talk) 22:53, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maurice Starkey

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Fails WP:GNG. The justification for the creation of the article in 2007 was that Starkey "was one of the last surviving veterans of WWI" even though he joined 8 months after the war ended. Both references (which are now permanent dead links) appear to be from his local paper and one is his obituary. I can't find anything when searching for further references except for a clipping of his wife's obit in the same paper. GPL93 (talk) 17:54, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Military and Pennsylvania. GPL93 (talk) 17:54, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Hey man im josh (talk) 18:28, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per GNG. I don’t see what he did is in any way notable. He joined the armed forces after the Armistice of the Great War and didn’t do anything else except living past 100. Am I missing something? Bearian (talk) 02:05, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

From what I can gather, it used to be that any possible WWI veteran was considered notable by some back when this article was created, even if it was WWI-adjacent at best. Some have yet to have an AfD, such as this one and Robley Rex. There was an AfD a few months ago for a guy who showed up for induction into the Army on November 11, 1918 and was just dismissed because the armistice had been signed earlier that day and an earlier AfD was closed as keep with the reasoning being that he "assumed the risk" and that made him one of the "last surviving WWI veterans". Best, GPL93 (talk) 01:47, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete No credible claim of notability. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 17:54, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:GNG. Mztourist (talk) 02:58, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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