Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bob Taggart
I suggested on the talk page of this article that Mr. Taggart would be eligible to have an article at age 110, since Wikipedia has had a tradition of listing people who have lived to that age at the Oldest people article. My condolences to his family and friends, but it appears that he has passed away before that time. ThaddeusB makes a good point that significant coverage in reliable sources is the basic threshold for notability in , but has failed to address  which suggests that a person's biography is not notable if coverage of them is for a an event they were part of, and not the person specifically. I believe that the curiosity of his age was a singular event that was covered. All of these policy arguments aside, from a  approach, let's look at this logically. Mr. Taggart's biography is a stub and is likely to remain so permanently. Meaning no offense, but if a person's sole legacy is being old, and not even breaking any records in the process, how do we build an article? He worked on railways from age 14 until retirement. There's nothing to add that wouldn't be trivial in a biographical article
— User:Atama, 17:24, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:N||WP:BLP1E||WP:IAR (Wikipedia:Notability)