Thread:CGT dk/@comment-31321778-20170727052036/@comment-258494-20170808014824

Ag24ag24 wrote: I see an update to "died in 2017" fixing my comment above, but no fixes to the other cases - maybe I should elaborate that Fenton is alive according to http://gerontology.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_supercentenarians_born_in_1905 but is not in http://gerontology.wikia.com/wiki/Oldest_living_people and that Bingo and Takeyama are born in 1905 according to http://gerontology.wikia.com/wiki/Oldest_living_people but are not in http://gerontology.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_supercentenarians_born_in_1905. The France inconsistency I just mentioned is that Adda appears in http://gerontology.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_supercentenarians_born_in_1905 (though Raffy doesn't) and Weiszfeld's individual page says she is in limbo.

Greetings, Wikia is supposed to be a "fansite". The main reasons that the Gerontology Wiki is currently being used for rather serious ("encyclopedic") purposes is that: A. Wikipedia became a hostile environment for supercentenarian listings (they tended to crop lists, delete articles, make ad hoc changes, etc.). B. While there should be a "GRG Wiki" or some kind of supercentenarian database website where this information is tracked. Updates can be made in a central server and the lists will be populated accordingly. It would save a huge amount of time to be able to just make the update in the central data server and, voila, all the output lists reflect that one change. In the long run, it would be better if the scientific community had something more than a "fansite" for tracking this information. Please e-mail me privately to discuss that issue.Ryoung122 (talk) 01:48, August 8, 2017 (UTC)