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The result was delete. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 15:50, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

List of oldest Baseball Hall of Fame members

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This is a trivial way to look at the members of the BBHOF. How the HOFers rank in terms of age does not receive significant coverage. Muboshgu (talk) 15:43, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete -- I could see an article listing all of these folks with a sortable table including birthday, if someone really felt that the information was important. Ma^t_chups 19:31, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Repurpose and retitle - Convert this into a sortable list of all members of the hall of fame by date of birth, also including dates of death for those who died and computed ages. The main Hall of Fame list doesn't contain these biographical details, which are notable enough -- the problem with the current list is that focusing on the current ages of living members is pretty trivial. --Orlady (talk) 20:46, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wouldn't reconfiguring it to include everyone's DOB also be trivial? --Muboshgu (talk) 22:23, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - If kept, it should at least be retitled as List of oldest living Baseball Hall of Fame members. Rlendog (talk) 21:39, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Great list, could maybe be renamed to something like 'List of Living Baseball Hall of Fame Members'. --LAA Fan 22:27, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame has the years of their careers. What does their current age have to do with their baseball exploits? Wikipedia is not Trivial Pursuit. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:29, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This is good material, but in the end I don't think the intersection of age with the Hall of Fame warrants a standalone article. Merging this in with the List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame would be the best solution, although it would have to be done very carefully with good sources, since that is currently a featured list. Either add a DOB column to the list in the other article, or create a sublist devoted to currently living members. Them From Space 17:56, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I personally disagree with that idea because DOB isn't a criteria for making the HOF, and we list the length of the individual's career already, which is far more important. --Muboshgu (talk) 18:46, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spartaz ^Humbug! 16:17, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete We already have List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. BUC (talk) 10:49, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete because WP should be for information of lasting value. On a list of, for instance, "The Oldest Living United States Presidents" when a person dies his name is removed from the list. WP should not have this type of data crunching, but just the plain facts. Steve Dufour (talk) 17:19, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- does not warrant a separate article, where notability and criteria for inclusion are not determined by some reasonably-objective reliable secondary source. The main article is just fine for anything that needs to be said on this.N2e (talk) 21:30, 16 January 2011 (UTC).[reply]

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