Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Surviving veterans of the First World War
Some thoughts on what is being said in here.  There are claims that someone is notable because his or her death is reported nationally. My first wife's death went out on the national wire services, and was printed in newspapers all over the country. Does that make her notable enough for a Wikipedia article? I don't think so, as her chief claim to fame was that she was the first woman "of color" to be elected a national officer of NOW. Her death was "momentarily newsworthy". What is notable is that only a few veterans of World War I are still alive. Their individual names are not notable for the purposes of Wikipedia. It has been claimed that these people are notable because of the conjunction that they are veterans of WWI and still alive. By that reasoning, can I start a List of veterans of both World War I and World War II? My grandfather would qualify for that. An encyclopedia is not supposed to include everything imaginable. I recommend everyone read Encyclopedia as well as |What Wikipedia is not
— User:Dalbury, 12:24, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)