Deletion of List of surviving veterans of World War II

Comment: First of all, nominator has  exactly backwards. "Notability is not temporary" means that if you are notable in a specific timeframe, then you are always notable for WP purposes; not that you have to be notable in every possible time frame. Second, in a hundred years (assuming that WP will still exist, which is doubtful) the page will ''not'' be empty: it will be renamed and moved to "List of notable WWII veterans", perhaps the focus changed. Anyway, this is irrelevant when deciding what to do ''now''. Third, to include only notable persons is not only absolutely not POV (what POV is pushed by "being notable for WP"?)but it is exactly the right thing to do to avoid  and to have a reasonable list -if anything, it can be moved to List of notable surviving veterans of World War II. As for ''I find it morally repulsive to delete non-notables from this list.'', well, I find instead more morally repulsive to delete notable, sourced and encyclopedic lists from WP. Now what? If you don't want to delete non-notables from the list, don't do it, and someone else will do
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NTEMP||WP:IINFO)

Comment: per Cyclopedia.  This is obviously passes  that I don't understand why deletion is ''required
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Lists (WP:LIST)

Comment: First the nomination rationale of it being "unmaintainable" and a "magnet for unsourced non-notable entries" are not valid rationales for deletion.  The other arguement about having it as a category fails, per .  Second, this is a list of notable individuals, which can be |sourced as needed.  AfD is not for cleanup.  The real issue here is that in a few years, this list will be empty.  A better solution is to mirror the WWI veterans lists and start to create and maintain lists such as List of veterans of World War II who died in 2014, etc
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (WP:CLN||WP:V)