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List of the 100 oldest members of the United States House of Representatives

List of the 100 oldest members of the United States House of Representatives (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Is this really a proper list? It's not a list of the oldest House members when they were serving (that's at List of the oldest living members of the United States House of Representatives). It's really just a list of the oldest people who happened to have been members of the House since their age isn't related to their service. This seems more like trivia to me, especially since it's entirely unsourced. Ricky81682 (talk) 21:28, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

• Delete and how would a person verify this? Serving in the House and getting old are not related. Legacypac (talk) 21:32, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Human3015^TALK  21:35, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Human3015^TALK  21:35, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Human3015^TALK  21:35, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

• Delete. WP:OR. Not an encyclopedic topic. Pburka (talk) 23:33, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
• Delete. Does not seem to satisfy WP:LISTN. I checked Google with "Maurice Thatcher" "Cornelius Cole" oldest representatives, and it returned almost nothing. I don't think any reliable sources care about this. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:32, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
• Delete ~ Totally unnecessary list that is not encyclopedic. JTtheOG (talk) 01:52, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
• Keep WP:USEFUL, WP:LISTN--Dangermouse600 (talk) 00:39, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

  I suggest you review WP:USEFUL. Pburka (talk) 01:12, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

  I suggest you do!--Dangermouse600 (talk) 11:03, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

• Keep per most of the the keep arguments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of longest-living state leaders. This is not the strongest of list topics for cross categorizing, but not enough for deleting. Every entry can be referenced to a bio page and the ages are compiled from such. OR doesn't apply to this list in my opinion. There is clearly defined criteria for inclusion with no ambiguity. It's a list of people that are obviously notable and factoring in longevity which is at least arguably notable as well. I see no strongly compelling reason to delete this. RoadView (talk) 01:56, 3 January 2016 (UTC)