User talk:TFBCT1
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[edit] Edna Parker
I see that you've reverted myself and several other users who've attempted to place her age in years and days in the infobox using {{age in years and days}}. This gives a result of "birth_date = 20 April 1893 (115 years, 53 days)" which seems perfectly accurate given that today is 12 June 2008. The template is used in hundreds of articles. Perhaps there's been a discussion on this elsewhere that I haven't seen, but your edit comments don't help me understand your reasoning, so I was wondering if you could expand on this either here or on the article talk page. —Moondyne click! 01:33, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- Personaly, I am in favor of using the "age in years and days" format. However, when I attempted to use it in the past on the supercentenarian pages, they were always reversed and I would receive a warning citing some Wikpedia policy. I guess the bottom line was that we cannot absolutely confirm that this person is living and that it is "true" that they are exactly that age unless we contact them each day. Why we can do it in tables and not in infoboxes- I have no idea. I myself would like a better explanation to your question. TFBCT1 (talk) 20:34, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
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- Well why then enforce an action which you apparently neither entirely support or can provide evidence of a policy which is against this? When Parker dies do you not think that the article will be promptly adjusted to show that - her age is the basis of her notability. I am reinstating the template and ask that you not remove it without a decent rationale and discussion at her talk page. Moondyne 00:17, 22 April 2008 (UTC) I see that someone else has reinstated it already. Moondyne 00:19, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Edna Parker revisited
Why do you keep changing {{birth date and age|1893|4|20}} to [[20 April]] [[1893]]<br> ({{age in years and days|1893|4|20}})? Plrk (talk) 07:32, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- For the purpose of aesthetics- it looks better, more organized and complete in the display on two separate lines instead of broken in the first. TFBCT1 (talk) 06:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Request for Comment on List of the verified oldest people
A request for comment has been initiated at Talk:List of the verified oldest people. As you have been involved in the issue, you may wish to comment there. Cheers, CP 00:20, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] States and provinces
As I understand it, column Country in the List of the verified oldest people tells a reader in what country each supercentanarian lives/lived, ie his/her nationality. Unless it is called Place of birth it should not include exact place of birth as the person hardly lived all its life in a single state of the US. Then, including state or province is both misleading and makes the table less legible.
I do not argue that the place of birth is important information and it should be included in article about each supercentanarian but in my opinion it is clearly superfluous for overview table. (And strictly speaking, Pennsylvania or Quebec are not countries.) Koristka (talk) 08:24, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
