Deletion of Kane Tanaka

Comment: She's received significant coverage and her article has now been expanded. She's also had more than just  coverage as she was the feature of this article in 2016: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-113-year-old-kane-tanaka-supercentenarian-2016may06-story.html and was in this video last September: http://www.kbc.co.jp/asadesu/asadesutv/detail.html?id=5861
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ROUTINE)

Comment: Could we perhaps forget about ,  or  arguments this time around? And expecting that more in-depth sources will become available in the future is |uncertain at best. Please present arguments solidly based on policy or guidelines. Thanks
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:ILIKEIT||WP:ITSUSEFUL||WP:ITSNOTABLE||WP:CRYSTAL)

Comment: This is a well sourced article from a variety of publications. One cited paper, the ''San Diego Union-Tribune'', is not a "local newspaper" as stated above. According to the latest audit numbers released by the Associated Press, the regional paper was ranked Number 24 in the http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-circulation-numbers-for-the-25-largest-newspapers-2012may01-story.html top 25 U.S. newspapers. ''Newsweek'', also cited in the Wiki article, is bylined by ''Newsweek'' staff writer David Brennan and was '''not''' "almost certainly taken from Wikipedia," as misstated above. I cleaned up the article and expanded it some. Easily passes asic and 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Bots (WP:B||WP:GNG)

Comment: per others, being the oldest known living person in the world is indeed a claim of significance and notability.  The Chiyo Miyako AfD completely went against precedent: as noted in that AfD, every oldest living person in the past 14 years (now excluding Miyako and likely to soon include Tanaka, given the anti-supercentenarian bias that seems to be evident upon reading through 51 pages of talk archives) has an article.  Quite a few supercentenarians that fell short of being the oldest living person have articles too: Lucy Hannah, Tane Ikai, and even Shigechiyo Izumi and blatantly false claimant Mbah Gotho, just to name examples.  It seems that people who are supporting deleting this are merely basing their arguments on .  And just for the record
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:IDONTLIKEIT)

Comment: Please remember to ignore argumets to  made by delete !votes. It is not up to us to judge what reliable sources found worthy of note. As several of the keep !votes point out, the article meets the guidelines of  and . The subject has received significant coverage in reliable sources. A redirect or merge has previously failed to retain notable information sourced from reliable secondary source. ---&nbsp
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:NOTINTERESTING||WP:BASIC||WP:GNG)

Comment: The article fails  and contains nothing encyclopedic except her birth date, her age, country, and eventually her death date. All of that information can easily fit into a table in a list, where it is easier to view. The fact that she is old, plays board games, walks in nursing home hallways, and had some relatives die in WW2 is not notable or encyclopedic
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOPAGE)

Comment: Plenty of continuing coverage in major publications over several years means that the subject clearly passes  and .  Other policy-based reasons to keep include , , , ,  and .  Sources include:  ''New York Times'', ''Guinness World Records'', ''USA Today'', ''Japan Times'', ''Newsweek'', ''Washington Post'' and many more
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BASIC||WP:ANYBIO||WP:ATD||WP:CENSOR||WP:IMPERFECT||WP:NOTPAPER||WP:NPOV||WP:PRESERVE)

Comment: Kane Tanaka has received coverage far in excess of what would be expected for an otherwise ordinary woman in Japan. Those who argue that being the WOP (or simply very old) are  is absurd. Being the world's oldest person is an attribute, not a single event. Additionally, I worry greatly that this discussion is tilted against Tanaka because of her country of origin. If the oldest person in the world lived in the Anglosphere, I highly doubt that Wikipedia editors would be making the case that she did not merit inclusion in Wikipedia
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E)