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Jeanne Bot

You can't assume a birth date based on the publication date of the article. It said she was born in January 1905 and that she had just celebrated it which does not mean it was on that day.--Dorglorg (talk) 02:44, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the situation with Jeanne Bot is not perfect as the article doesn't explicitly state her date of birth, but either we go with the implied January 18, find a reliable source showing it's the 14 or remove her. Using the implied 18th since another reliable source doesn't seem to exist seemed the best option to me, but which do you prefer? For my part, a reasonable editor could believe the article is saying she was born on the 18, but I obviously wasn't there myself 112 years ago to know for certain. Newshunter12 (talk) 02:52, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I set up a conversation on the talk page about it.--Dorglorg (talk) 02:55, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Longevity

I know it's frustrating, believe me. I was a peripheral part of the ArbCom case all that time ago, and the issues go back before my time to at least 2006. My work on this has earned me a lot of off-wiki vitriol from the 110 Club, the way they talk about me you'd think I actually go around murdering these people or desecrating their remains. It's just not worth taking personally or letting it get to you. The long game, such as it is, will work out, it just takes time; lest you be discouraged, look at WP:Articles for deletion/Jan Goossenaerts and WP:Articles for deletion/Jan Goossenaerts (2nd nomination). Your contributions in the area are enormously helpful and valued, don't get discouraged. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 22:02, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) Thank you so much for your words of encouragement and for sharing the trials you have faced for many years while editing in this topic. This wiki topic is a tough realm to be in for sure, but I agree that the long game is in our favor as demonstrated by the links you provided, which I read. No worries, I will stay strong and keep editing in the topic, while letting the insults and slander against me go. I clearly have had it easy compared to you! Thank you for your compliments about my editing in the longevity topic. Newshunter12 (talk) 00:58, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely. And thank you for getting involved. It is an interesting subject, after all, and Wikipedia's coverage of it can be the sum of all the best sources. Definitely keep at it, and I'll help out as much as I can. WP:WikiProject Longevity is looking good, and strengthening it will be a huge asset. Thanks for all your hard work, and don't ever hesitate to reach out to me for anything. (And as an aside, it is strangely amusing to see the way the longevity types portray me; insert "longevity fanboy" for "vandal" here and do the same for "troll" here and it's a huge weight off your shoulders) The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 02:27, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit warring across multiple articles

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Gabrielle Valentine des Robert

Is this a source? http://centenaires-francais.fo...e-personnes-de-110-ans-et-plus Ignoto2 (talk) 08:15, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Ignoto2 That "source" is a forum, and forums are not considered reliable sources on Wikipedia. You must also provide the reliable source (a newspaper article or obituary for example) when you make a death removal; its existence somewhere else is not enough. I don't think you had bad faith in your removal, but this is not the first time you have failed to adhere to policy and I have warned you before in edit summaries, so I felt an official warning was needed this time. Please adhere to policy going forward. Newshunter12 (talk) 10:33, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Next time i will provide a reliable sources before changing Ignoto2 (talk) 10:51, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit War

Hi, I really don't want to start an edit war between us. Is there any compromise version of the page we could agree on? Rockstonetalk to me! 06:26, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Rockstone Hey, I really appreciate you defending me at the edit warring notice board. I'm going to continue this discussion at the approprotate article talk page so that other editors have a chance to see it. Newshunter12 (talk) 22:04, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome!

Sounds good. --Rockstonetalk to me! 23:07, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Lepetit should not be removed

Edith Lepetit is apparently 112 and alive

http://centenaires-francais.forumactif.org/t18-preuves-de-vie-sur-les-personnes-de-110-ans-et-plus#9270 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:2FBA:7F90:A98F:BD74:38C:28D2 (talk) 22:39, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia does not consider forums to be reliable sources. That citation is of no use to us. What list were you referring to by the way? Newshunter12 (talk) 03:41, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

AfD

It's getting hot there, I know. I'm trying my very best to keep things from boiling over, this still is nothing like the blowups that went on in 2010 and no one who was around then wants a repeat. I hope this is the last of the contentious AfDs in this topic area (I have 2 merge ideas, but that should be much less contentious). You've been extremely helpful in this topic area, and I want you to stick around, so do your best to stay above the fray. It can be extremely taxing, but it's only one discussion; if, in fact, the article is kept and there are some sources, rewriting it a bit can be beneficial in a couple different ways. I'll do my part to keep on keeping on, there's certainly enough good existing content in this topic area to improve on. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 02:46, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@The Blade of the Northern Lights I tried to resolve at least part of the situation with BHG, but I'll sum that effort up as a train wreck. As far as that one AfD goes, I'm done with my involvement, now. We'll both keep up the good fight elsewhere for sure, mate. Newshunter12 (talk) 17:05, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. Never hurts to step back sometimes, there's always somewhere else in need of some kind of work. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 17:41, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

Since our secret admirer seems insistent on sticking around for a while, I've semiprotected your talkpage for a month. Let me know if you want me to modify that. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 16:25, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@The Blade of the Northern Lights Thanks so much, mate, for all the good work you've done on my talkpage today. A month of semi-protection sounds great - it's been very rare that an IP address has constructively edited my talkpage, so I'm not really missing anything good. If it ever came to it in the future, I'd be fine with permanent or very long semi-protection. Newshunter12 (talk) 21:46, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I'll definitely keep an eye on things. If someone wants to bother me, well, I work with disabled adults, so dealing with long profane rants is part of the deal; at least on Wikipedia I don't (as happened to me once) have to restrain someone for 4 1/2 hours in full Halloween costume! The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 22:14, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

LOL! Newshunter12 (talk) 22:39, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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An overdue barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For your excellent hard work of conducting in-depth scrutiny of so many portals, and your well-reasoned nominations for deletion of those which do not meet established guidelines. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:54, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you BrownHairedGirl for giving me my first Barnstar! I saw it much earlier but didn't have time to respond then. It really made my day! I'm going to add it to my user page right now. It's really sweet of you - thanks again! :) Newshunter12 (talk) 02:29, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome. It has been hard-earned!

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Portal MFDs

Please take no offense, but it sometimes looks like you are just copying and pasting the same thing across recent portal deletion discussions. I don't have substantial arguments against yours, but they sound pretty similar in general and don't really add much to the discussions. You might as well create a user subpage titled something like User:Newshunter12/Standard portal deletion argument and subst it. Geolodus (talk) 18:52, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) I have to say I kind of disagree with that analysis. My perception is that cut-and-paste !votes are very common in certain areas of XfDs. For example, at WP:DELSORT/Football, it's common to see "Delete, fails GNG and NFOOTBALL" over and over again, even largely from the same editors, even for years. There's just not a lot of ways to say "lack of in-depth coverage in multiple independent, reliable secondary sources". That may be true for 9 out of 10 articles that are nominated, so everybody ends up saying "fails GNG" over and over and over again. I don't agree that this doesn't really add much to the discussion–not every XfD really needs a lot of discussion, after all. With the football AfDs, noms basically say "I searched and can't find GNG sources" ("fails GNG"), and three or four editors say, "Yup, I also can't find GNG sources" ("fails GNG"), and so having three or four editors all say "fails GNG" is useful insofar as it indicates that multiple editors have searched and have been unable to find in-depth coverage in multiple independent, reliable secondary sources. So it is with WP:POG. It's no secret that the overwhelming majority of portals fail POG–they're not broad enough, don't have enough readers and maintainers, etc., and when they "fail POG" there's really little else to say other than that. Now, you may say, "if the overwhelming majority of portals fail POG, why don't we find a more efficient way to process them?" The answer, I think, is: because a group of editors insisted that we go through them one-by-one. So, there's 1,000+ portals that fail POG, we're going to go through them one by one, and that means 1,000 "fails POG" !votes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sometimes I try to break up that monotony by making a joke, that's basically the best solution I've been able to come up with to this problem. – Levivich 20:57, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Leviv Thank you for defending me in this matter. You captured my perspective on portals perfectly, so there's very little that I can add. @Geolodus, it's not my fault that a seemingly endless stream of portals have the same exact failures of WP:POG, so that my MfD votes often sound similar, especially when I am responding to @BrownHairedGirl's exceedingly comprehensive noms. If that upsets you, then you should take it up with the people who made these heaps of abandoned portals and those editors that are forcing a one by one cleanup effort. I assure you, I've done a considerable amount of examination and research on these portals. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:26, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Geolodus, I recommend that you look at a wider selection of NH12's MFD !votes. They are more varied than your comments suggest.

Where the nomination is well-researched and detailed, NH12 does indeed post a fairly standard shortish reply. But when the nomination is skimpier, they often provide a lot more detail. And NH12's research is v thorough. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:46, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this certainly caused quite a discussion. I wasn't really upset, just a bit ... concerned, for lack of a better word. As stated in my original comment, I wasn't directly arguing against NH12 or for useless portals. Geolodus (talk) 05:44, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for your ideas

		The Civility Barnstar
		for making a concerted effort to tag multiple editors when proposing a new idea on portals, including some editors who held some opposing views.Sm8900 (talk) 13:19, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I highly appreciated your effort to tag all participating editors when you posted your recent idea, on how to handle the namespace for portals. I may have disagreed with it, but your willingness to make sure to include others in the discussion shows what Wikipedia is really all about. thanks! --Sm8900 (talk) 13:19, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Sm8900 Thank you so much for this barnstar! Glad something came out of that attempt at consensus. I have to disagree with your take though that "Lack of page views is not a reason to discard portals". Though its status as a guideline is in question, WP:POG has long stated portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". Roughly 900 abandoned portals have been deleted in the past six months for those and other quality/broadness reasons. Portals don't have their own content, so their only value is their utility. Take Portal:Monaco for instance. From January 1 to June 30 2019, it had 4 views per day, while the head article Monaco (which has many rich and versatile navboxes) had 7,048 views per day. This means the portal only had 0.06% of the daily page views of the head article and it would take nearly five years for the portal to have the total number of views the head article has in a single day.

The portal only serves as a distraction from the head article, and given how many bots scour the web and the swarms of bots Wikipedia itself uses, are any of those 4 views even usually real people? About 900 portals (over 50% of the pre-TTH spam portals) have already been deleted for being abandoned failures. My experience at hundreds of portal MfD's that closed as delete is that nearly all portals are abandoned relics of past editors' momentary enthusiasm, and that there is 15 years of hard evidence that by any sane metric, the Portals Project has been a complete disaster. Head articles, with vastly higher readership and quality then their associated portals, and their very common rich and versatile navboxes are all we need on Wikipedia. There are plenty of junk portals currently at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion if you want to see for yourself the truth about portal space at large. Voting is your own business, I'm just trying to help you understand this topic. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions about portals. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:22, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

you make some interesting points. I will try to give that some real thought. thanks!! Sm8900 (talk) 01:07, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

Welcome back. Not much has changed. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:42, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Compared to the longevity editors, the portal platoon illustrate sanity. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:39, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Robert McClenon I know right! Appreciate the coffee and support. Newshunter12 (talk) 02:13, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't expect that I was going to say that, as in giving the portal platoon faint praise or in praising the longevity editors with faint dammns, or something. Yuck. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:55, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

When will it end

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Good luck

豊かな十年へようこそ/WELCOME TO THE D20s

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Evidence copyedit

Many thanks for your copyedit[1] of my Portals ArbCom evidence. It was a helpful and neutral cleanup, and I do hope that you aren't rebuked for it.

After spending a day examining the piles of counter-factual absurdity elsewhere in that page, I was well fed up, and had to pace myself with breaks to keep going through it. So I ended up posting right on the deadline, and was too close to it all to proof-read properly without a few hours break. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:51, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@BrownHairedGirl You are very welcome! I figured as much and fear not, as copy-editing your evidence so much made me feel very productive and helpful. Unfortunately, I've been rebuked, and it's been reverted by a new Arb and they will not let me reinstate it, but say you may request to change your own evidence at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals/Evidence.

I thought you did a great job illustrating the main points of the issues surrounding portal fan conduct and portal space at large, as well as your growing disillusionment with Wikipedia. You raised many of the same issues that I did, and this rebuke of my copyedit rather dovetails with what you said about the decline of Wikipedia's environment. It's heading in the same direction, with startling accuracy, as your work with portals. Ignoring the substance of what I did and focusing only on the process, just as your intelligent evidence and facts about portals were ignored because you... you... after many months of putting up with it, weren't polite calling nonsense out for what it was. As I said before, this whole set up speaks very poorly about Wikipedia as an organization beholden to the lowest common denominator. We shouldn't even be having this conversation because portal space should never have been created in the first place, let alone sustained when from the very beginning it was clearly a playground creating an ever growing abandoned trash-heap.

But when an organization lacks both common sense and central planning, that's what happens. Stupidity. And it doesn't help that playground-editors don't care about wasting the time of people like you and I cleaning up their mess, and quite possibly get a thrill from it. Why else would someone demand meticulous week+ one by one cleanup of spam portals created at a rate of one every two minutes?

I'm in a bit of a conundrum as I enjoy helping you and talking with you, but want to leave Wikipedia, the only place we interact at. I'll watch the ArbCom case to its end, but I'm not giving Wikipedia more of my time. It clearly doesn't deserve it. Consequently, I'll save goodbyes for later. Newshunter12 (talk) 16:50, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Newshunter12

Many thanks for all that you have written there. I am v sorry to hear that you feel minded to give up, but I am unsurprised.

Please will you consider sending me an email (via Special:EmailUser/BrownHairedGirl) so that we can keep in touch? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:11, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That is very kind of you, @BrownHairedGirl, but for years I have maintained a hard line between my personal life and Wikipedia, and I'm hesitant to ever cross that threshold. If you don't mind, I'd rather prefer to fade into the mist with the understanding I'm welcome to knock on your wiki-door in the future (ex. I might have questions about Ireland). Farewell for now, though I won't be leaving until the ArbCom case is finished. Newshunter12 (talk) 13:11, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. I understand that desire for privacy, and operate a similar approach myself. I was ready to make an exception in your case, but I well understand your desire to keep a hard line.

You are of course v welcome to keep in touch whenever you pop back here. I'd like that. However, I am personally so disillusioned that I may pull the plug myself. As noted in my evidence, I now have little faith in the ability of Wikipedia's processes to sustain the principle that we are here to build an encyclopedia, and that skill and honesty are baseline requirements. I am withholding final judgement until the arb case is over, but I fear that we have reached a tipping point. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:48, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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I would like to suggest that Nina Willis be added to the oldest living persons list. Her date of birth is January 14, 1909 making her currently 111 years 88 days old. You seem to be a very active editor on the oldest persons list so I thought you might be interested in this particular case. Citation: fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-woman-celebrating-111th-birthday. Thanks for all you do editing. I for one appreciate it very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bromleychuck (talk • contribs) 18:26, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Bromleychuck I have since boldly reduced the size of that article's list to 50 entries due to systemic maintenance and quality issues, so at 111, Nina Willis is not presently relevant to that article. Newshunter12 (talk) 19:26, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Longevity Troll

Hi I'm a member of The 110 Club and an editor on the Gerontology Wiki and I just wanted you to know that a user named Timothy McGuire has been vandalizing longevity pages on Gerontology Wiki and making death threats towards users. Robert Young has reported McGuire to the FBI but I was thinking this could be the same person that has vandalized longevity related articles on this site and threatened you and other editors. Anyway I'll just leave these links here so you can look into it yourself https://the110club.com/troll-alert-t23363.html?sid=a837b37f59df5e40d0645daea1fdcc1c#p40089958 https://gerontology.wikia.org/wiki/Message_Wall:TheGalaxies567 . 103.236.151.4 (talk) 12:28, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for this information. The behavior seems strikingly similar to me, and it would explain why the troll here on Wikipedia comes, vandalizes/threatens, and "goes away for a while" (typically when lengthy page protections have been put in place, hampering their activities). They just move between sites, it would seem. Goodness, this really explains a lot about the prolonged psychotic abuse I and others have been subjected to here, the numerous attempts to get me blocked, and the vandalism.... @The Blade of the Northern Lights and @zzuuzz Please read this thread. Is there any way information (ex. IP addresses) can be gathered or shared from the numerous examples of often violent-themed abuse we received to see if this is the same individual as on the Gerontology Wiki? It seems likely that it is the same perpetrator, and if so, the FBI has been involved in the past and apparently is likely to get involved again. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:08, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Probably the same person, who incidentally hit my talkpage last night. Not really sure the FBI will do a whole lot about that, although genuine death threats should be forwarded to local law enforcement. Recent checkuser data and the IP addresses used could potentially help as well (and I have an eye on this page in case things start up again). The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 03:21, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@The Blade of the Northern Lights Thank you for the update. My thinking is that if the incidents can be linked using hard evidence, that hypothetically both helps us better understand what has been happening here on Wikipedia and adds to the body of evidence against the individual. If it is the same person, more evidence could prompt law enforcement to finally act, if an even small crime were committed at some point in all this (ex. someone just threatened to assassinate the head of the GRG, who reported it to the FBI, seems a good place to start). Newshunter12 (talk) 03:52, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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I would suggest that Hazel Plummer (born June 19, 1908) be added to the oldest living persons list. I am unsure of exactly what constitutes a "Reliable Source" but there are 2 reports about her 112th birthday that I consider credible: A Facebook post from the Congregational Church of Littleton, MA dated June 13, 2020 and a YouTube video of a parade in front of her nursing home to celebrate her 112th birthday during the COVID-19 crisis dated June 19, 2020. Would these be considered "Reliable Sources"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bromleychuck (talk • contribs) 15:39, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Bromleychuck Hello, and thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, neither of the two above sources are considered reliable by Wikipedia, since they are social media. Neither is this, since it's a blog. Only newspaper articles, media reports, government reports, and GRG/GWR validation are considered reliable sources by Wikipedia for inclusion. I have actually already looked into trying to add Hazel Plummer (or rather re-add, since I once added her to list's hidden addendum, but later removed her as she no longer qualified for inclusion) before, but all her recent coverage, while extensive, falls into the crack of being considered unreliable. I don't doubt she is alive, but article quality standards must be upheld. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:32, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. I'm interested in tracking longevity, and I noticed that Lucy Hannah had been removed due to a dispute in a scientific research book. When I reviewed their references, the latest one was from 2014 which is 6 years ago. Is there any way you can provide me with a secondary source that also disputes her longevity claim with more recent references? Validation of age is important but I just want to make sure the removal of her from the list is supported by more than one source. Thank you. 2600:8805:0:E65:5844:6001:5212:BFC8 (talk) 18:46, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the research presented about Lucy Hannah in this book is being published for the first time, so you are mistaken it's all from six or more years ago or requires past corroboration. This fairly obscure topic moves at a glacial pace and since it involves personal information, document info and negative judgements on most age cases are typically kept private. This is a comprehensive, scientific de-construction of the Lucy Hannah case by top Gerontologists whose work we cite hundreds of times in the various supercentenarian articles. When reading this book section, one learns the Lucy Hannah validation was basically a mistake others in 2003 took at face value as true, but enough information was finally gathered to pass an official public judgement on the case, which was to debunk it. No claim was ever submitted for her and there was no media coverage of her whatsoever while alive; the only body that ever "backed" her case as true from their own research was one old general study by the Social Security Administration that goofed up.

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Thank you for addressing my concern. I just wanted to ensure history is protected and that validation of her age indeed had no legitimate standing. 2600:8805:0:E65:5844:6001:5212:BFC8 (talk) 01:27, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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I came across an article that I believe confirms that Juliette Bilde is alive and has celebrated her 112th birthday. The article is from La Nouvelle Republique dated 20 October 2021. It can be found at: https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/deux-sevres/commune/saint-loup-lamaire/les-112-ans-de-juliette-bilde-a-la-maison-de-retraite I was going to attempt an edit on the page but do not feel confident that I would be able to do it correctly. Thanks for the great job you are doing with this page.Bromleychuck (talk) 21:56, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for this information and your kind words. I have just added her to the article with the source you provided. I do my best to keep the article updated, and your help is much appreciated. Feel free to make more suggestions any time. Newshunter12 (talk) 02:57, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for the invitation, I just signed up. I don't have a lot of time at the moment, but would like to learn how to evaluate templates so that I could contribute nominations, and not just participate at others' TfD's. Using Template:Are Parish as an example, which is 490 on User:Jonesey95/unused templates list, no article links to it according to a What links here search and it was last edited by a human in 2013. Heck, the parish itself ceased to exist in 2017. Would this be a good template to nominate for TfD with a nom of: Abandoned and unused template for parish that ceased to exist in 2017.? Am I understanding the topic of templates correctly? Thank you for any guidance you can provide. Newshunter12 (talk) 05:08, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Barbara Barton

You removed my grandmother from the 50 oldest living people in the US three days ago - but she is still alive! She resides at Hattie Ide Chaffee nursing home in East Providence RI and she is very much still alive at 113 and one month old.

Best regards, Her granddaughter, Beth Barton Rondeau 2600:8805:A000:4E00:B80B:3A9D:71B9:3602 (talk) 16:32, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I am the one who originally added Barbara Barton in 2020. I recently removed her from the same article, List of the oldest living people, a list of the 50 oldest known people in the world. It was because her most recent reliable source was now over a year old. To be included in that article, there is a blanket requirement that individuals need to have a recent independent reliable source (newspaper article, media report, Japanese prefecture reports, GRG validation, etc) proving they are alive. Social media, blogs, forums, other wikis, and self-published sources are Never considered reliable sources for supercentenarians. Her most recent source was from mid-October 2020. If you provide a recent reliable source, I would be happy to re-add her. As for how you can acquire sourcing, since we already have reliable sourcing for her full name and date of birth, even just a little mention in a minor reliable source like, "Barbra Barton had a sprightly game of bingo Saturday at age 113 at..." would do, if that helps.

Please keep in mind that for many, reliable death coverage is never found; they just "fall off" the list like Barbra Barton just did, hence the mandatory rule.

On a related side note, please know that the topic of extreme longevity on Wikipedia has over the years been plagued by death hoaxes and hoaxes/vandalism of all kinds (most often from anonymous accounts like yours, which is why IP editors can no longer edit that article), so while I don't doubt your sincerity, please understand that private requests or private information will never be used to edit an article. For better or worse, on Wikipedia, we go only by what the reliable sources say. Newshunter12 (talk) 05:05, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Death Date of Alfred Smith

Why is the Death Date of Alfred Smith in "List of British supercentenarians" showing as 3 August 2019 when his obituary in The Herald shows it as 4 August 2019. They also state that he had lived "111 years, 128 days", so their date is not a typo. Please refer to https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/17841188.obituary-alf-smith-scotlands-oldest-man/. Thank you. Rklingmann (talk) 08:40, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@TFBCT1 @Rklingmann So we are all on the same page, this is the first time I have seen the above source (which was created 12 days after I looked into this matter in 2019). It is in contradiction to the BBC, and Herald Scotland itself from August 4. These two articles stated he died on Saturday night, which would be August 3, 2019. They quoted a local official's tweet that he lived 111 years and 128 days, but as any calendar will tell you, he would need to have died on Sunday August 4 for that to be true. At the time, it seemed far more likely the local official was 1 day off in a tweet than multiple major sources wrong on "Saturday night vs. Sunday morning" for his death, and we don't use info from social media anyway. I thought that was what your post was alluding to and so ignored it.

Given your source came 12 days after the others, it likely had a better chance to get the facts right. I would support changing his death date to August 4, but I would note for the record sloppy journalism caused this issue, not any mistake of mine. Newshunter12 (talk) 16:25, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Newshunter12 Can you make the changes since you are more qualified than I am? Rklingmann (talk) 07:47, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Rklingmann List of British supercentenarians has been updated accordingly, including using the source you provided above. Thank you for your contributions to this topic on Wikipedia. Newshunter12 (talk) 15:44, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Catherine Abate

I found an article about Catherine Abate that lists her date of birth as 15 November 1909. https://wyrk.com/112-year-old-in-hamburg-shares-secret-to-a-long-life/ This makes her older than Asta Hasse who is #50 on the List of the Oldest Living People. My editing skills are limited so I thought I would send the information to you as you seem to be a seasoned editor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bromleychuck (talk • contribs) 16:33, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your valuable contribution @Bromleychuck. I haven't had much time to edit or research in recent months, but just seeing this now I have promptly added her to List of the oldest living people and List of Italian supercentenarians. You are correct that I am seasoned editor in this topic area, and your contributions are always welcome here. Newshunter12 (talk) 20:55, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Obituary: Nosebagbear

Serendipity: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no paywall, for thou, Wikipedia Library, art with me

Featured content: Catching up

Concept: Strange portal opened by CERN researchers brings Wikipedia articles from "other worlds"

Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023

News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published

In the media: History is written by whoever can harness the most editors

Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"

Featured content: By your logic,

Concept: Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS

Poetry: "The Sight"

Traffic report: There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam

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The Signpost: 23 October 2023

News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?

In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing

Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements

Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!

Traffic report: The calm and the storm

News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes

Humour: New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it

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The Signpost: 6 November 2023

Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015

In the media: UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man

News and notes: Board candidacy process posted, editors protest WMF privacy measure, sweet meetups

Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk

WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023

News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia

Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades

Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.

Wikidata: Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia

Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare

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The Signpost: 20 November 2023

In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup

News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health

Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads

Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom

Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships

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The Signpost: 4 December 2023

News and notes: Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy

In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns

Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"

In focus: Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged

Comix: Bold comics for a new age

Essay: I am going to die

Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence

Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain

Humour: Mandy Rice-Davies Applies

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The Signpost: 24 December 2023

Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?

News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023

In the media: Consider the humble fork

Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI

In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU

Technology report: Dark mode is coming

Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata

Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols

Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture

Crossword: when the crossword is sus

Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!

From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^

Apocrypha: Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.

Humour: Guess the joke contest

BJAODN: Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense

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The Signpost: 10 January 2024

From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!

Special report: Public Domain Day 2024

Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit

News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!

In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate

In the media: What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?

WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine

Obituary: Anthony Bradbury

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023

Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading

Comix: Conflict resolution

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The Signpost: 31 January 2024

News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail

Opinion: Until it happens to you

Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry

In the media: Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race

In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2

Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"

Comix: We've all got to start somewhere

Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down

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The Signpost: 13 February 2024

News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers

Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?

Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna

In the media: Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part

Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?

Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football

Crossword: Our crossword to bear

Comix: Strongly

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The Signpost: 2 March 2024

News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"

Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"

In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record

Obituary: Vami_IV

Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday

WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close

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The Signpost: 29 March 2024

Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year

Interview: Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy

Special report: 19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles

Op-Ed: Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge

Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors

News and notes: Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified

In the media: "For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled

Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune

Humour: Letters from the editors

Comix: Layout issue

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The Signpost: 25 April 2024

In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics, and another wikirace on live TV

News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law

WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap

WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)

Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users

Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem

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The Signpost: 16 May 2024

News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections

Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?

Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24

In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis

Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure

Comix: Generations

Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby

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The Signpost: 8 June 2024

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023

Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade

Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor

In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say

News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024

Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies

Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth

Featured content: We didn't start the wiki

Essay: No queerphobia

Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!

Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer

Comix: The Wikipediholic Family

Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox

Concept: Palimpsestuous

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The Signpost: 4 July 2024

News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates

Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board

In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators

Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna

In the media: War and information in war and politics

Sister projects: On editing Wikisource

Obituary: Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov, Hyacinth, and PirjanovNurlan

Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion

Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos

Op-Ed: Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections

Crossword: On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares

Humour: A joke

Cobwebs: Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn

Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps

Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play

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The Signpost: 22 July 2024

Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo

News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter

Essay: Reflections on editing and obsession

In the media: What's on Putin's fork, the court's docket, and in Harrison's book?

Obituary: JamesR

Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword

Humour: Joe Biden withdraws RfA, Donald Trump selects co-nom

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The Signpost: 14 August 2024

In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse

Recent research: STORM: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts" to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems

In focus: Twitter marks the spot

News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded.

Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?

Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing

Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird

Humour: I'm proud to be a template

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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked

In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?

Recent research: Simulated Wikipedia seen as less credible than ChatGPT and Alexa in experiment

News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election

Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024

Serendipity: What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year

Traffic report: After the gold rush

Humour: Local man halfway through rude reply no longer able to recall why he hates other editor

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The Signpost: 26 September 2024

In the media: Courts order Wikipedia to give up names of editors, legal strain anticipated from "online safety laws"

Community view: Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus

Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics

Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing

News and notes: Are you ready for admin elections?

Gallery: Are Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia?

Recent research: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors

Traffic report: Jump in the line, rock your body in time

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The Signpost: 19 October 2024

News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning

Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper

In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!

Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South

Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night

Book review: The Editors

Humour: The Newspaper Editors

Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug

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The Signpost: 6 November 2024

From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation shares ANI lawsuit updates; first admin elections appoint eleven sysops; first admin recalls opened; temporary accounts coming soon?

In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel

Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship

Gallery: Why you should take more photos and upload them

In focus: Questions and answers about the court case

Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?

Technology report: Wikimedia tech, the Asian News International case, and the ultra-rare BLACKLOCK

Humour: Man quietly slinks away from talk page argument after realizing his argument dumb, wrong

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The Signpost: 18 November 2024

News and notes: Open letter to WMF about court case breaks one thousand signatures, big arb case declined, U4C begins accepting cases

In the media: Summons issued for Wikipedia editors by Indian court, "Gaza genocide" RfC close in news, old admin Gwern now big AI guy, and a "spectrum of reluctance" over Australian place names

Recent research: SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions"

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment audit reports: FY 2023–2024

Traffic report: Well, let us share with you our knowledge, about the electoral college

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