Deletion of List of surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War

Comment: or re-purpose and re-name to List of last Spanish Civil War veterans by country.  The current construction of the page is |original research, and thus the page is a violation of what Wikipedia is not.  I note that this topic is under /DS|Discretionary Sanctions
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR||WP:AC)

Comment: does not meet  as the topic of "surviving" veterans has not been discussed sufficiently in reliable sources. The list would make more sense if the individuals were blue-linked, but this is not the case. Also, per the elements of a "death-watch" undertones
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN)

Comment: all veterans survived. Some lived to very old age.  So what?  If a veteran of any war passes  he can have a page.  It is conceivable that the "oldest surviving" or "oldest surviving" member of a specific unit, say, the Lincoln Battalion, might be written up sufficiently for that alone to have a page.  But this list is not encyclopedic
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:SIGCOV)

Comment: Fanfluff" as a reason to delete on an article about '''war veterans''' and calling this war "not special" pretty much throws this nom into a prejudicial  territory, notwithstanding the textwall you're trying to throw at us. Restate your nomination in one paragraph of less than three sentences. Also, don't get mad at '''volunteer editors''' for forgetting to remove those who have died from this article; be glad this article is updated at all. Plenty of sources for those in the article that I see, too. Finally, " we don't have such an article for any other war to my knowledge"? Three clicks is all it takes to get to List of notable surviving veterans of World War II
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:IDONTLIKEIT)

Comment: This article was definitely started |too soon and could certainly be considered to have been fanfluff as it was started at about the time the WWI surviving veterans page came to an end. That it appears to have never listed more than 10% of the actual surviving veterans makes it of negligible encyclopedic value. The topic itself is certainly of far less notability than the corresponding WWI article. The fact that there are so few updates also reflects an apparent lack of interest in the topic. It could be speculated that as more veterans reach 100 there might be an increase in reports of veterans and possibly of interest generally but it is debatable whether that justifies retaining the article at this time and in its current state. It is however more justified as an article than List of notable surviving veterans of World War II which not only has the same flaws but is a perfect example of listcruft
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Too soon (WP:TOOSOON)

Comment: There is also nothing special about this war as to require an individual article listing all the living veterans of the war - we don't have such an article for any other war to my knowledge. Only war or longevity fans want this, it is not encyclopedic." This statement right here brings me close to thinking that this is a bad faith nomination; nasty nasty war stuff, who wants that, right?  (Gee, do I get to eliminate any article from Wikipedia in a field that bores me?)  Never mind that it shows a blatant lack of  -- we don't have such an article for any other war? ''Try the template on the bottom of the freaking article!''  Nor, demographically, would there be "hundreds and possibly thousands" of such veterans, when you have to be a centenarian or near to to make the list.  If there are sourcing issues, that's a content dispute, but not one for AfD. ''' ''Nha Trang
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE)

Comment: I'm persuaded by the  argument here. An out of date, inaccurate or incomplete list about software, for example, is one thing. When it's a list about people it's another. Would be tempted to say '''keep''' with something like a Template:Dynamic list that expressed the issue with more humane language, but I'm not sure there's a template that exists to caveat this list appropriately
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)

Comment: Why not have a list of the tallest veterans or the most obese ones? In addition, this list is bound to disappear, sooner or later no veterans will be left. None of the entries on this list is notable in his own right, so the information in this list really is absolutely uninteresting. Note that the list of WWII veterans referred to above is limited to ''notable'' veterans. Finally and most importantly, there are no sources that show that "surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War" is actually a notable topic. Hence: fails . As for the !vote above, as far as I can see, this is yet another longevity-related article that should never have been created to start with
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN)