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338: 171: 429: 401: 346: 334: 354: 526:, but this is just indiscriminate and useless information. Few people even in Switzerland care about who the president is (the presidency being just a rotating chairmanship of the government), let alone what their age is. 250:
It's sorted by their age at the time they died, which is an irrlevance in terms of their presidency. Creating a list based on age at inauguration, or length of tenure would not be indiscriminate - but age at death is.
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Neither of your examples are relevant: (a) they select on different criteria (age at inauguration is not unrelated to their term of office, whereas their age of death following that term would be), and (b)
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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of notable persons, sorted by their age (one of many such lists which exist here on Knowledge (XXG)).
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Some of these articles do contain useful information about ages of leaders. Such a page is
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The existence of other articles on useless subjects is not a reason for keeping this one.
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Swiss presidents are notable enough to have their own articles, and indeed they do (see
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I am a Swiss politics nerd and have written, e.g., most of the current content at
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because the two selection criteria (presidents, age at death) are unrelated.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom by longevity
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List of First Ladies of the United States by longevity
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