Thread:930310JL/@comment-258494-20170105025428/@comment-258494-20170105173103

930310JL wrote: Perhaps the GRG tables should reflect this change as well since most of the content here is sourced from the GRG tables?

http://www.grg.org/Adams/A.HTM

The Table A that was updated about a week ago still contains the term "verified", if a gradual shift was ongoing this would have been changed to "validated".

The GRG listings began with Dr. Coles. He preferred "verified" and the scientific usage of the words sometimes interchanges "verified" and "validated", even though, as I pointed out, they are not exactly the same and because the word "verified" is sometimes used to mean "sourced to a reliable source" (the Wikipedia definition and the Gerontology Wiki is a Wikipedia-lite system), I feel that it would be best to clearly use "validated" for any time the meaning of the term is "validated by scientific authorities" rather than "verified that the person died, according to this newspaper report." You don't have to change every category all at once...by simply not using the old category and using the new one, the shift will happen over time, and then we can change over the old categories one by one until it's done. Or you can do it all at once for us, thanks.Ryoung122 (talk) 17:31, January 5, 2017 (UTC)