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Francisco Nunez Olivera

Did you know that Francisco Nunez Olivera is the oldest man in the world? I know that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:401:C503:63C6:9D93:B272:B051:5B07 (talk) 01:50, 27 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Have you got a citation to verify that? DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 05:10, 27 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If an age is good enough for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_people surely it should be included here. What is the DOWNSIDE if it is inadvertently wrong??? 2600:8807:480A:1900:95E:6ABC:24F9:3BEC (talk) 17:05, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WIkipedia is not self-referencing. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 17:20, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_supercentenarians but I will... Dfoofnik (talk) 17:08, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:OTHERLANG. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 17:20, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Celino Villanueva Jaramillo Suggestion

This guy may have been born in 1896 and still going: meet the world's oldest man (probably). Although with the headline including "probably" it is a questionable source. --Frmorrison (talk) 16:39, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See Longevity claims where all such unsubstantiated claims belong. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 17:18, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposition

I propose that the list of top ten oldest living people should only have people verified by the GRG. While there are hardly any living men verified, there are many women so it really isn't necessary to include unverified people like it is for the men list.--Dorglorg (talk) 00:02, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. The top ten living list should reflect List of oldest living people. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 00:11, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion has been done to death, resurrected, dragged through WP:ARBCOM, and killed once again. The GRG is not - repeat: is not - considered any more reliable than any other reliable source for the purposes of Wikipedia. Canadian Paul 16:57, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well why is that? They go through a long process of reviewing documents to verify ages, the media does no such thing.--Dorglorg (talk) 20:18, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I recommend reading through the ARBCOM case if you want to understand that. Long story short, we don't "rank" the "reliability" of reliable sources, as that would introduce far too much POV into the equation. If one reliable source contradicts another, then of course that is different (hence why we don't include claims older than the official World Oldest Person). If we excluded cases not "approved" by the GRG, then we (as an encyclopedia) would be implying that those claims are false, which they may not be. That would be original research, which we do not engage in here. We simply report what the reliable sources are saying. Canadian Paul 20:39, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Emiliano Mercado del Toro

He's currently the only person on this page whose residence is more specific than country. Changing Puerto Rico to United States would bring this in line. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BuckX (talk • contribs) 15:34, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Men?

Why does the page include a list of oldest men, but for women it only links to the dedicated page? Shouldn't both be treated equally? 89.234.140.197 (talk) 11:30, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

We should all be treated the same in the planet earth. It dosen't matter what gender you are unless you are going to the bathroom which we have doing this for the past 55 years, also it matters about you gender when you have friends coming over your house. Another thing I want to say to you is you are just a random 12 year old who just fools around on wikipedia.I could tell that because you don't have a real Wikipedia account and people who have a fake Wikipedia account destroys Wikipedia ,and then a administrator will block you from editing Wikipedia; it could be, 2 weeks, 1 month, blocked globally from any wiki or any language of Wikipedia for a month, finally it make be infinity but you could still unblock your editing but it is hard to. One day, I would make the articles Oldest women and Oldest men with Oldest living women and Oldest living men.I was always interested making oldest living men and Oldest living women and I want to add that to wikipedia.Everyday, I see the amount of wikipedia articles to up. Now we have over than 5 million Wikipedia articles. Even more than that, it is over that 5.5 million articles. Even even more than that, it has over that 5.55 articles. I am surprised it is that amount I thought it was at 5.1 million articles. We hitted 5 million articles on November 1, 2015. I thought we had 5.55 million articles in the year 2021. Before I know it there would be 10 million articles thanks to you guys. Sorry, I am off topic but I am annoucing the that the oldest living women and Oldest living men is coming out on Febuary 16, 2017.Dylan Cerbone born in 2006 (talk) 23:08, January 26, 2018(UTC)