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Welcome to WikiProject World's Oldest People!

About us

The goal of WikiProject World's Oldest People is for editors to collaborately improve, expand, update and discuss articles in regards to the World's Oldest People.

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Importance guide

Need	The article's priority or importance, regardless of its quality.
Top	Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopedia. For biographies, all-time record-holders for oldest woman and man, e.g., Supercentenarian, Jeanne Calment, Christian Mortensen.
High	Subject contributes a depth of knowledge. For biographies, aged 115+ for women, 113+ for men. Also, national recordholders, e.g., Maria de Jesus, and Oldest Person in the World, e.g. Emma Tillman.
Mid	Subject fills in more minor details. For biographies, aged 112–114 for women, 110–112 for men, e.g., Harry Patch.
Low	Subject is mainly of specialist interest. For biographies, aged 110–111, e.g., Alexina Calvert.

Assessment

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/World's Oldest People articles by quality statistics

The project has in the past run a newsletter, currently dormant, but which could be revived if there is sufficient interest.

Articles we cover

See Category:WikiProject World's Oldest People articles.

Notability and sourcing

Articles on centenarians and supercentenarians are biographies and the notability guidelines for biographies apply. Independent coverage in a plurality of reliable sources is required. Some long-lived people are notable principally for their advanced age, e.g., Jeanne Calment. Some are notable for other reasons, in which case all aspects of their lives should be included in their articles. Although not the primary focus of this project, cases where the advanced age is in doubt should be considered for notability using the same criteria as the cases when the advanced age has been verified by an independent body, e.g., Old Tom Parr is notable. Supercentenarians over 110 should also be included in list articles (line-item notability), whether or not they have a separate biography due to notability.

When the person is still living, strict criteria apply. The guidelines on biographies of living people should be consulted.

When a plurality of reliable secondary sources has demonstrated article-level notability (e.g., significant science or media sources in addition to Guinness World Records), the following questionable primary or tertiary sources may be used to supplement the reliable sources to the degree permitted by local article consensus, but an article should not be based primarily on the questionable sources, and should not rely on such sources to make questionable assertions without attribution (e.g., assertions about parties' history of records broken, rank-order placement, or current status as alive or dead in the absence of reliable updates). These sources are generally acceptable for line-item notability in lists, but must be used with care and usually attribution, especially when they disagree:

The journal Rejuvenation Research should be attributed and contextualized, especially when quoting another source listed below.
Gerontology Research Group data from grg.org should be attributed and used only as backup to reliable sources.
Data from the dynamic page recordholders.org/en/list/oldest.html ("Oldest Human Beings") should be used similarly to GRG data.
The Yahoo! group health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Worlds_Oldest_People, like other discussion groups, is deprecated in favor of using any reliable sources it quotes. However, if Yahoo! WOP data is quoted on article talk to satisfy verifiability and if a reliable source on the same point is unavailable, limited use that conforms with other Wikipedia policies is permissible.

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 ==Notability and sourcing==
-Articles on [[centenarians]] and [[supercentenarians]] are biographies and the notability guidelines for biographies apply. Independent coverage in a plurality of [[WP:RS|reliable sources]] is required. Some long-lived people are notable principally for their advanced age, e.g., [[Jeanne Calment]]. Some are notable for other reasons, in which case all aspects of their lives should be included in their articles. Although not the primary focus of this project, cases where the advanced age is in doubt should be considered for notability using the same criteria as the cases when the advanced age has been verified by an independent body, e.g., [[Old Tom Parr]] is notable.
+Articles on [[centenarians]] and [[supercentenarians]] are biographies and the notability guidelines for biographies apply. Independent coverage in a plurality of [[WP:RS|reliable sources]] is required. Some long-lived people are notable principally for their advanced age, e.g., [[Jeanne Calment]]. Some are notable for other reasons, in which case all aspects of their lives should be included in their articles. Although not the primary focus of this project, cases where the advanced age is in doubt should be considered for notability using the same criteria as the cases when the advanced age has been verified by an independent body, e.g., [[Old Tom Parr]] is notable. [[Supercentenarians]] over 110 should also be included in list articles (line-item notability), whether or not they have a separate biography due to notability.
 When the person is still living, strict criteria apply. The [[WP:BLP|guidelines on biographies of living people]] should be consulted.
-When a plurality of reliable secondary sources has demonstrated article-level notability (e.g., significant science or media sources in addition to ''[[Guinness World Records]]''), the following primary or tertiary sources may be used to supplement the reliable sources to the degree permitted by local article consensus, but an article should not be based primarily on the questionable sources, and should not rely on such sources to make questionable assertions without attribution (e.g., assertions about parties' history of records broken, rank-order placement, or current status as alive or dead in the absence of reliable updates). These sources are generally acceptable for line-item notability in lists, but must be used with care and usually attribution, especially when they disagree:
+When a plurality of reliable secondary sources has demonstrated article-level notability (e.g., significant science or media sources in addition to ''[[Guinness World Records]]''), the following [[WP:QS|questionable]] primary or tertiary sources may be used to supplement the reliable sources to the degree permitted by local article consensus, but an article should not be based primarily on the questionable sources, and should not rely on such sources to make questionable assertions without attribution (e.g., assertions about parties' history of records broken, rank-order placement, or current status as alive or dead in the absence of reliable updates). These sources are generally acceptable for line-item notability in lists, but must be used with care and usually attribution, especially when they disagree:
 *The journal ''[[Rejuvenation Research]]'' should be attributed and contextualized, especially when quoting another source listed below.
 *[[Gerontology Research Group]] data from grg.org should be attributed and used only as backup to reliable sources.