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This WikiProject and its editors aim to create, improve, update, discuss and assess articles and lists about the world's oldest people, collaboratively.
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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
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Articles we cover
Notability and sourcing
Articles on centenarians and supercentenarians are biographies. The notability guidelines for biographies apply. Significant, independent coverage in reliable sources is required.
Some long-lived people are notable principally for their advanced age, e.g., Jeanne Calment. A subject whose biography is based on only one or two reliable sources establishing notability may belong on a list, rather than in a stand-alone biography, unless these sources provide significant notable details beyond longevity.
Some centenarians and supercentenarians are notable for reasons in addition to their longevity, e.g., Leila Denmark. In such cases, notable aspects of the subject's life, that are reported in reliable sources, should be included in the subject's biography. Supercentenarians whose age has been reported in reliable sources should be included in longevity-related lists, whether or not other notable, reliably-sourced facts justify a stand-alone biography.
Although not the primary focus of this project, cases where advanced age is contested or in doubt should be considered for notability using the same criteria as cases where advanced age has been verified by independent, reliable sources, e.g., Old Tom Parr is notable.
When a person is still living, the strict, exacting guidelines on biographies of living people apply and should be editors' guidestar in making editorial judgments. In particular, a statement that a person falsified his or her age or date of birth should not be made unless it has been clearly reported in independent, reliable sources.
Guinness World Records is a reliable source for ages, for dates of birth and death, and for whether an individual holds or held a record for human longevity.
When sufficient reliable secondary sources establish notability that calls for a stand-alone biography, the following primary or tertiary sources may be used, for limited purposes only. They may supplement reliable sources, but no article should be based solely or primarily on these sources, and no article should rely on these sources alone in order to make assertions about subjects' history of records broken, rank-order placement in longevity-related lists, or current status as alive or dead.
These sources are generally acceptable for use in longevity related-lists, but must be attributed explicitly, for each list item they source. The sources should be used with care, especially where they disagree:
- The journal Rejuvenation Research.
- Gerontology Research Group data from grg.org should be attributed and used only as backup for reliable sources.
- 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. Uncontradicted Yahoo! WOP data can be quoted on an article talk page to establish the verifiability of a reliable source.
- The Oldest Human Beings (OHB) list hosted at http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/oldest.html is deprecated in favor of using any reliable sources it quotes. Uncontradicted OHB data can be quoted on an article talk page to establish the verifiability of a reliable source.