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Renewal6 and I are in a content dispute regarding the death date of Gustav Gerneth. Renewal6 believes is it 21 October, 2019; I believe he died on 22 October, which is the longstanding consensus used for two years. I have tried the method of seeking a third opinion (TFBCT1), who supported my thoughts, but Renewal6 continues to press on. Which date of death should be used in longevity articles? 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 12:03, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
For relevant information, see my talk page and this discussion. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 12:03, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
There's a discussion going on at Talk:List of last World War I veterans by country about credible evidence that Kimura may have been a World War I veteran. If true, this would make him not only Japan's last surviving WWI veteran but the last surviving veteran of the entire war, displacing Florence Green. As Green's status as the last survivor was an internationally reported event, strong evidence would be called for to change that, and this WikiProject's the best place to look for that, IMHO. I'd be happy if people would look in on the discussion and see what you can dig up. Ravenswing 07:35, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
There is an ongoing discussion at Talk:List of last World War I veterans by country#Blank rows about the scope and presentation of this article. All contributions would be welcomed. —Brigade Piron (talk) 12:35, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
Today, I saw a newly registered editor adding a new entry for her great-grandmother to a list of supercentenarians. I reverted it because she added in the wrong place &, more importantly, it had no citation.
I have helped create & add the ((Shortened footnote editnotice)). I also note that there is an ((Editnotice for lists of people)).
I think that there should be an editnotice for Category:Lists of people by age in general & longevity lists specifically. What do others here think? What verbiage should go into such a template? Remember that brevity is of the essence.
Note that placement of editnotices requires the Template editor user access level. I have that; hopefully there are others on this project who have it as well. Peaceray (talk) 23:08, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
)and turns it into something like
It will work on a variety of links, including those from ((cite web)), ((cite journal)) and ((doi)).
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Johanna Mazibuko is in the news again, with a claim to be 128. See Draft:Johanna Mazibuko. Fences&Windows 11:15, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Since the last discussion almost nothing about the article has changed, but one of the major claims of notability has. She is now the third oldest person, not the second, and unlike the first two on the list there's literally two sentences of biographical information in the biography about her. Given how contentious the last discussion was, I figure I'd raise this here; my own thought would be to merge it somewhere (most likely List of American supercentenarians), but this is obviously a case where being bold would be counterproductive. Thoughts? The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 01:11, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
On 31 July I reverted the removal of a person from List of supercentenarians by continent on the basis that they had a reliable source that made them eligible for inclusion in the list. The removal was on the basis that they had no proof of being alive in over a year. The latter criteria only applies to living supercentenarian lists. I was reverted twice by Chicdat (talk · contribs) on the basis that there is no consensus that someone continue to be included if there is no report that they are still alive. I have pointed out at Talk:List of the verified oldest people that the ONLY criteria for inclusion is that defined here which requires only that the person have a WP:RS which identifies their age as being old enough for inclusion, there is no requirement that they continue to be reported as alive until there is a report of their death. Chicdat tried WP:OTHERSTUFF by suggesting that the removal of a GRG verified person because they had gone into limbo set the precedent for such a removal, however the cases are different: the GRG person was validated at an age too low for inclusion, and the GRG, with their typical lack of suitable information, does not include a date when their "limbo" cases were last reported alive.
So, can we have a clear consensus that any person that has a WP:RS which reports them alive as at an age which would be sufficient for inclusion in ANY all-time supercentenarian list is included until such time as either their age is debunked, OR they are reported to have died at age that no longer qualifies them for inclusion OR, if they are not reported to be alive in over a year then their age is adjusted to that of the last report and fluorit and that date are included in the Date of death column. Regarding the GRG list and going into "limbo" inclusion in the living list, provided that list has been updated within the last year, constitutes evidence that they are still alive. Moving to limbo means their age should be taken at the age of verification or any other WP:RS which indicates they are old enough for inclusion.
Pinging a few regular contributors to this topic: @JFG:, @MattSucci:, @Georgia guy:, @Newshunter12:, @The Blade of the Northern Lights:, @TFBCT1:, @Knowledgekid87:, @David in DC:, @Canada Jack:, @Softmist:. DerbyCountyinNZ (Talk Contribs) 02:55, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Been a while. I no longer edit regularly and on the rare occasions that I do, it's to fix spelling or formatting or such things. But I got notice of this ping and am a bit nostalgic and quite pleased to see many of the names of the other pingees (if that's a word - or even if it isn't). Thanks for tickling a couple of my memory neurons. As my Teamster friends say in salutation: Keep the shiny side up and the rubber side down. David in DC (talk) 04:33, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Both of your points of view, obviously, have merit, however, I'm going to side with DerbyCountyinNZ (talk · contribs) and say that the availability of a reliable source is enough to keep the person on the list, but Chicdat (talk · contribs)'s argument is quite persuading. MattSucci (talk) 15:10, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
I respect DerbyCountyinNZ (talk · contribs)'s point-of-view because this proposal would keep a record of supercentenarians who've gone under the radar reporting-wise and allow them to remain on all-time supercentenarian lists instead of their memory being erased from Wikipedia. However, I do see several issues with this proposal that, in my view, outweigh the benefits:
Other concerns worth noting:
He (Marcel Meys) has not been shown by reliable sources to have been alive in well over a year, so he does not qualify for inclusion in this article (List of the oldest living people). Anyone is free to remove him from that other article (List of the verified oldest people) on the same grounds.Meys should have been removed from the List of the verified oldest people long before this discussion took place—on 7 June 2021—because his source dated back nearly two years, to 10 August 2019. Despite Newshunter's invitation, however, Meys was not removed. All supercentenarian lists should be consistent with each other; it doesn't make sense for a reader to see a supercentenarian listed as "living" on one page yet nowhere to be found on a list that is specifically for living supercentenarians. Derby's proposal would prevent this from happening, but again, is it better to commit to listing an unreported supercentenarian with a rank that is likely inaccurate, or even intimate that a supercentenarian is dead when there is evidence to the contrary? Or is it better to remove that supercentenarian—perhaps temporarily—and re-add them if/when a new reliable source emerges? Softmist (talk) 04:16, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
Another non-article. Will go to Afd when I have time. DerbyCountyinNZ (Talk Contribs) 22:12, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class=
parameter to ((WikiProject banner shell)), which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to ((WikiProject banner shell)), and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass ((WPBannerMeta)) a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom
parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:34, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
After being merged into List of French supercentenarians, I noticed that this user has unilaterally removed the redirect which retained consensus for five years (and IMO was a good merge), then reverting a restoration of the redirect by Sam Sailor. A look at the user's contributions, at Special:Contributions/Wwew345t shows that they are new, with less than 100 edits, and have done the same thing on many other longevity redirects, reverting editors such as Technopat, Devonian Wombat, and DerbyCountyinNZ, and even having gotten blocked for edit-warring by Ponyo, although disruptive behavior continues since the block expires. Ponyo, perhaps an indef is in order. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 10:21, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
And now the user is doing the exact same thing. The amount of IDHT is astounding here. 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 14:57, 4 August 2023 (UTC)