Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Myrtle Jones
Those counters are removed as violations of . Per , all unsourced material on biographies of living people can and must be removed on sight. Having an automated counter on her page presents her age to the day as a verifiable fact, which is of course impossible unless there happens to be a |reliable, third-party source documenting that she is alive every time the clock hits 00:00 UTC. As has been seen, sometimes it takes a few days for the notices of death to come out, which means the counter presents a false fact as verifiable and true in these cases. It's a simple issue of |verifiability. Every last detail and fact on this page should (ideally) be verifiable. Thus we can say that person X is alive until shown dead, because we can verify through many sources that they are alive until we can verify that they are dead. With exact ages, however, that is not the case. Unless, of course, you just mean a year counter, in which case it's {{birth date and age|year|month|day}}. Cheers
— User:Canadian, 15:47, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:BLP||WP:BLP||WP:RS||WP:V (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)