Talk:Gustav Gerneth/@comment-33034960-20180212004325/@comment-25898958-20180212011620

What’s more, we know that there’s a difference between a case that’s unvalidated “because we haven’t got round to it yet”, and one that’s unvalidated because documents haven’t been sent in. This man would be old enough to be on the WSRL if documents had been sent in. I think with cases such as these, we need to place more emphasis on the “unvalidated” status.

We also need to place more emphasis on importance of validation for “bigger” records, like all-time oldest male from a certainty country, than more minor ones.

If there’s a 110 year-old living in Wyoming, I’m happy to say “oldest living person in Wyoming”, since it’s a more minor record and probably just a case of “not getting round to it yet”.

But if it’s a 112 year-old man from Germany, who we could expect to be validated, I think we need to emphasise the unvalidated status when saying “oldest German man ever”. Ollie231213 (talk) 01:16, February 12, 2018 (UTC)