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ClockworkSoul 04:20, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Great job on the EVO article.
It looks great. Very good article for a diamond-in-the-rough game. Siv0r
ERC article
Heh, thanks Paul. I had a little time that should've been spent at the beach instead, but it happens. Were you at the leadership thing today?
ERC article
Heh, thanks Paul. I had a little time that should've been spent at the beach instead, but it happens. Were you at the leadership thing today? Elefuntboy 02:17, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
Wikimedia Canada
Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Death List
Perhaps you can start by explaining to me exactly what it is that makes Death List notable? If I am not mistaken it is a web forum with a relatively small amount of traffic, and it has had a negligible impact on culture -- you use the example of a Simpsons episode but each one of those has a viewership over 10 million and is *far* more notable than a lightly trafficked webforum. And yes, Death List is lightly trafficked, the Alexa ratings for it have it in the dumps. There are HUNDREDS of celebrity dead pools just like Death List (or similar variants), and none of them are notable, either. Such forums simply don't belong in Misplaced Pages as anything more than a mention, if at all. Quatloo 07:39, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
You wrote: "Your view on significance is a bit skewed I think. Why should numbers be the be all and end all? Should we do a seperate page for every episode of every show that has more than X amount of viewers? I don't think it's necessary, because Misplaced Pages is an informational source, not a fanclub for TV shows."
- You ask why numbers matter. The Death List is a creature only of the web and only of the web, and because of that, its relative significance can be easily measured by comparing its ranking with that of other websites. And it falls well into the range of non-notable websites: if something lives only on the web and few people see it, it is almost by definition not notable. If it had a life outside of the web, you might have a point, but it does not. And you act as if I did not consider keeping the text from the old article. That text added very little value to the understanding of a Dead Pool. The right thing to do here is exactly what I did, give a passing mention to it and move on. Quatloo 11:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello from Gretnagod
Greetings and good luck with your fight to restore the Death List to its once proud position of having a unique entry. Gretnagod 12:52, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Oldest people
Thank you for correction, it was my error with supercentenarian list. Greetings. Berasategui 19:10, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the 'oldest people' list: the source used is
Birthday Table Announced by Ministry of Welfare and Labor Sept. 16, 2005 The announcement calculates the age as of Sept. 30 of the current year.
22 1895/10/12 Choho Fukuhara (M, Okinawa, Japan) Choho Fukuhara (M, Okinawa, Japan), now 109 years 11 months 10 days old
27 1895/12/19 Hiromi Minakata (M, Wakayama, Japan) Hiromi Minakata (M, Wakayama, Japan), now 109 years 9 months 3 days old
Thus Choho (or Chojo) Fukuhara was born Oct 12, 1895 and was Japan's 22nd-oldest living person, as of Sept 30, 2005. Hiromi Minakata was born Dec 19, 1895 and was Japan's 27th-oldest living person, as of Sept 30, 2005.
Regarding the GRG list: This is Misplaced Pages, I don't think the lists have to be exactly the same. Note, for example, Misplaced Pages includes articles like Florence Reeves, 111, not (yet) on the GRG list. I think the GRG list uses a slightly higher standard.
In the case of Choho/Chojo Fukuhara, we were told that the oldest living Okinawan male was '110' years old in Oct 2005. As there was only one candidate, it must have been Chojo. Yet we never received official word of his turning 110. So, he's not on the GRG list. But I think for practical purposes we shouldn't short-sheet the bed just because we don't have a willing and capable Japan correspondent at the moment.
The Japan lists are updated once a year, every September, so unless we have a correspondent report from Japan the cases are 'presumed' to be living until the next year's list, when those who are not on the new list are presumed to have passed away.
Sincerely, Robert Young Senior Claims Researcher for the Gerontology Research Group and Gerontology Consultant for Guinness World Records → R Young {łtalk} 10:23, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Cat:Living People
Hi I incorrectly used the same category then ended up on a category page with only two entries... for your future info the category is "Living people" NOT "Living People" as you had used on the William Nyhan article. Garrie 22:34, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Oldest Living Actor
The title of oldest living actor refers to the oldest living actor still working.
Dante August 15, 2006
Robert Earl Jones
No. Sorry. GusF 20:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
recent deaths
Hi, when you wikilink people's names from Deaths in 2006, best to check it's the right person, eh? Norman Kelley is not the tenor but a journalist. Richard Dyer is not the actor/singer but the noted queer theorist. If it's already been delinked in the history, there's probably a reason for that. - W guice 02:08, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Estelle Getty
NOT dead ... as of this minute. Thank you for correcting that. When she does expire, I would be the one to verify it. MrEguy 04:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)