Talk:Wally Argus

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Succession box – oldest living All Black[edit]

@DerbyCountyinNZ: has twice removed the succession box from this page for the "Oldest living All Black", citing WP:SBSGUIDE. I've looked at that guideline and can't see where in there the aforesaid succession box is disallowed. Obviously I don't want to get into an edit war, so am bringing it here for discussion. Here is the succession box in question:

Records
Preceded by Bob Scott	Oldest living All Black 16 November 2012 – 21 October 2016	Succeeded by Ron Elvidge

The chain of succession boxes for the oldest living All Black is currently complete, apart from the one for Argus, which has been removed. I also note that there are other similar succession boxes in use, such as for the "Oldest living Test cricketer".

Thoughts please? Paora (talk) 05:05, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject_World's Oldest People/Archive 7#RfC: Should longevity biographies have succession boxes succession boxes are not appropriate for "oldest person" positions. Such positions are not won, earned, awarded or in any other way officially designated. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 05:13, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing there that convinces me that the succession box here should be removed. It looks like there was a fairly even split of opinions. It's interesting to note that all of the reporting around Argus's death noted, usually in the headline, that he was the oldest living All Black. Unlike the case of the longevity succession boxes discussed in the above RfC, in this case there is a relationshiop between the subjects – they were all All Blacks. Paora (talk) 10:52, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As there is no "title" Oldest living All Black, there appears no justification for the use of a succession box. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 17:18, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]