Talk:List of long marriages

I've worked on the page - I Hope you like it. ;) Do you now some couples more? But we need some information perhaps somebody can help.
Statistician 07.02.2007 16:10 (CET)

Yang Wan

Is she still alive?
Statistician 07.02.2007 16:10 (CET)

Marguerite Pingaud

Is she still alive?
Statistician 07.02.2007 16:10 (CET)

Gan and Huang Fu

Are they still alive? Birth- and deathdates?
Statistician 07.02.2007 16:10 (CET)

James Burgess and Sarah Ann

Marriad-, birth- and deathdates?
Statistician 07.02.2007 16:10 (CET)

Temulji Nairman

Have anybody more information about? Birth- and Deathdates?
Statistician 07.02.2007 16:10 (CET)

Bessie Pennebaker

Is she still alive? Birhdate?
Statistician 07.02.2007 16:10 (CET)

Katharina Nikolaus

We need her birthdate.
Statistician 07.02.2007 16:10 (CET)

Gilbert Hill and Sadie E. Longmoor

http://www.ifilivetobe100.com/html/profiles/hill/index.htm Birth- and deathdates of Gilbert Hill?
Statistician 07.02.2007 16:10 (CET)

Robert D. Fitch Sr. and Florence L. Fitch

It's from teh netherland-wiki. We need a sources to confirm.
Statistician 07.02.2007 16:10 (CET)

Martin and Christina Terry

It's from teh netherland-wiki. We need a sources to confirm.
Statistician 07.02.2007 16:10 (CET)

UK claim to 211+

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=IPED28%20Jun%202007%2000%3A06%3A30%3A400

104-year-old's birthday celebrations 28 June 2007 | 11:06

CRAIG ROBINSON

Kathleen Hazell IN 1903 Edward VII was King of England, Britain still had an Empire and Orville Wright flew the first aircraft with a petrol engine over in the USA.

And it was also the year that Felixstowe resident Kathleen Hazell was born and yesterday she celebrated her 104th birthday.

The centenarian - whose husband Frank died last year aged 107 - was joined by her son-in-law, David Fill, and staff from St Mary's Nursing Home, in Undercliffe Road East, Felixstowe, where she now lives.

Mr Fill, whose wife Daphne - Mrs Hazell's only child - died last year, said: “Considering my mother-in-law is 104 she is in quite good health. There are one or two problems but I would say she's fairly physically fit.

“Obviously, her husband lived to a good age but I'm not really sure what you could put it down to.

“They always said it was the fact they never drove but walked and cycled everywhere. They never drank any alcohol either.

“They moved to Felixstowe in 1966 and I know they really loved the area and breathing in the sea air.

“Kathleen is very fond of the sea and used to enjoy swimming in it regularly - in fact I think she was still dong it in her late 90s.”

Choppy Margetts, who works at St Mary's and looks after Mrs Hazell, added: “She doesn't look her age - you'd think she was in her 80s. She walks with a frame but she can potter along and is still relatively independent.” 72.152.95.211 04:50, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup

While this article is an interesting read, there's a few issues that should be addressed. I've broken it up into issues that concern the whole article and specific section.

General

• The article is a mixture of three different categories, only one of which really matches the title of longest marriages.
• Much of the sourcing is good, though other Wikpedias are not considered reliable sources. Any entry citing another Wikimedia project should be removed or have a citation from a primary source.

Section 1: "Highest age of married couples"

• The section is a rather odd category that addressed the couple's age rather than the duration of their marriage. This doesn't seem to fit the article and this section should probably be removed.
• This section gives the impression that the couples have been married for over 200 years which is clearly not the case as most of them have barely lived over 100. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.240.27.139 (talk) 16:22, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Section 2: "> 80 years"

• This section is more in line with the article's title, though it's really a "very long marriages" section rather than a definitive list of the longest marriage. The cutoff of "> 80 years" is pretty much arbitrary. I think this section would be better as a "Top X" list where the top 5 or 10 longest marriages were listed.
• A number of entries in this section are sourced to nl.wikipedia and should be removed or have better citations.

Section3: "60-80 years"

• The final section is a list of fairly long marriages that are seem to be chosen arbitrarily. The lengths of these marriage don't fit the "longest" criteria (I personally know three marriages that could beat couples in this list") and essentially are various notable people with rather long marriages. I'm not sure how this section could be brought in line with the article's title.
• Very few of these are sourced.

I think this is a case of "more is less" where cutting the article down to its core focus would greatly improve it. ChazBeckett 13:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I think we can deleted the "60-80 years"-Section. But in with categorie we should put the "Highest age of married couples" - I think this shouldn't be lost. Statistician 06.03.2007 13:04 (CET)

I o some research - know only two are from the netherland-wiki. I need time to confirm them so please dont't delte them. Statistician 06.03.2007 14:05 (CET)

I'd like to see it kept. The difference between this section and >80 years is that I don't recognize 1 name in the latter. Perhaps we should call it "Notable marriages 60 to 80". If it gets to be too long, it can always go to 70 to 80. Leon7 07:21, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

There are also various extremely long marriages documented in the Bible and the Book of Mormon? Right? Could we at least mention some of them?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.124.149.100 (talk) 22:01, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

No, sorry, because they honestly can't be proven at all. Extremely sexy 15:29, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

+80

Józefa i Stanisław Janczakowie, Poland http://www.tvp.info/news.html?directory=132&news=755115 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacek downey (talk • contribs) 13:49, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Proof of this and from when exactly? Extremely sexy (talk) 19:08, 28 July 2008 (UTC)