Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gustav Gerneth

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 no consensus. Based on the discussion it seems like the question is whether meeting WP:GNG here (the arguments that GNG is met seem reasonable, even if some keep arguments aren't giving any details about why they think GNG is met) is enough to justify a standalone page on them - as that guideline itself notes it's merely a presumption of notability, and as some delete arguments have pointed out per WP:NOPAGE sometimes even notable topics are better covered in a different form than a standalone article. I did discount the "being the oldest x makes you notable" claims as they are not based on any guideline or policy (as was pointed out during the discussion), and that also implies that "not fully confirmed" isn't a particularly strong counterargument either. That leaves the merger arguments - that the topic is already covered in a list article and that much of what is currently in the article isn't enough to justify an article but enough that it should be kept somewhere and in light of the WP:NOPAGE claims here cited it'd be a valid consideration beyond mere keep or mere delete. Two people are explicitly advocating a merger and two people (the nominator and less certainly Randykitty) appear to support that the information be preserved somewhere. That said, two people appear to oppose a merge (schetm and less certainly Reyk). My sense is that while there is no consensus on a plain deletion (the arguments are kind of weak on either side), but not enough support for a merger to deem it a consensus. So no consensus, but a dedicated merger discussion with the List of German supercentenarians article is probably warranted. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:10, 2 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]