Talk:List of oldest living men/@comment-1272640-20161222012759/@comment-26393720-20161223095326

I had this discussion with Robert here:

http://gerontology.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:10329#7

" It's POV/discriminatory to make too many presumptions here (for example, if we "presumed" that since we have no validated cases from the Philippines, then cases from there should be removed prima facie). If it's abundantly clear that the case is frivilous, that's O.K. to remove it. But if you you're just using "Unverified" to mean (Unverified because the GRG hasn't gotten to the case yet), that's not really the only purpose, or major purpose, for the "Unverified" category. By definition, we would expect the validated and pending data to be more reliable, and the "Unverified" cases aren't ranked.  To self-censor is "original research"."

So removing cases from areas such as Hong Kong just because there isn't any known supercentenarians from there should NOT be done.