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I think she should be ranked as a longevity myth because she is claiming an age over 130. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.136.237.89 ( talk) 00:30, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
However, as the oldest current claimant in the world with a claimed birthdate and an ID document, this case is more of a hybrid. Also, the reason for the claim is not so much religious (like the 150-year-old monk). If we think of a Venn diagram situation, there is an overlap between longevity claim/longevity myth. However, not all longevity claims are myths...some are quite plausible. Ryoung122 07:32, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
This CNN segment: [1] reports that her daughter is 90 years old. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.60.200.12 ( talk) 02:04, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
can't they just like... lop off a leg and count the rings or something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.153.29.112 ( talk) 15:20, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
This is a claim, not a myth. This woman clearly exists - she isn't mythical! She is, however, claiming to be a certain age, but has little or no proof of this. 206.165.150.70 ( talk) 10:06, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
The article is in a contradictary state at the moment. The daughter is stated to be 90 in one paragraph and 80 in the other and than there is the cite of Robert Young from 2005 that she is 79 which contradicts both numbers...
Btw: if she has 29 grandchildren, she will have more than one daughter, five, six or even more is more likely. Which makes it extremely unlikely that she got her first child with 54. With the 90 age claim for her daughter we get age 44 for the first child, which makes it "biologically not impossible" to have five, six or more children, but not likely. -- ::Slomox:: >< 21:17, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
I vote to delete this article. There should not be an article about someone claiming to be something. It should be verifiable. Here is a direct quote from wikipedia " Encyclopedic content must be verifiable." What if I said I was 135? Do I get put into wikipedia? No. And I also elect to delete any other unverified longevity claims. 137.244.215.19 ( talk) 15:12, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Also, we need articles on unverified claimants as examples of why age verification is needed. Ryoung122 08:37, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
It is almost certainly the case that at least 1 human being has lived to 130, depending on how you want to define "human being". This is just another consequence of the fact of the ratio of the current and recent populations to the total that ever lived, assuming you at least go back 50,000 years. It's simply that record keeping that could capture the fact is recent and the first verified cases of supers have only occurred in the last couple of hundred years. It's certain that many living will see the 130 barrier broken so it shouldn't be stated that it's somehow impossible on the face of it. Furthermore it's likely that at least some of the cases like Tomo, Maria Olivia da Silva, etc. would in fact be corroborated if they could be. 72.228.177.92 ( talk) 01:20, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
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I think she should be ranked as a longevity myth because she is claiming an age over 130. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.136.237.89 ( talk) 00:30, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
However, as the oldest current claimant in the world with a claimed birthdate and an ID document, this case is more of a hybrid. Also, the reason for the claim is not so much religious (like the 150-year-old monk). If we think of a Venn diagram situation, there is an overlap between longevity claim/longevity myth. However, not all longevity claims are myths...some are quite plausible. Ryoung122 07:32, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
This CNN segment: [1] reports that her daughter is 90 years old. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.60.200.12 ( talk) 02:04, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
can't they just like... lop off a leg and count the rings or something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.153.29.112 ( talk) 15:20, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
This is a claim, not a myth. This woman clearly exists - she isn't mythical! She is, however, claiming to be a certain age, but has little or no proof of this. 206.165.150.70 ( talk) 10:06, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
The article is in a contradictary state at the moment. The daughter is stated to be 90 in one paragraph and 80 in the other and than there is the cite of Robert Young from 2005 that she is 79 which contradicts both numbers...
Btw: if she has 29 grandchildren, she will have more than one daughter, five, six or even more is more likely. Which makes it extremely unlikely that she got her first child with 54. With the 90 age claim for her daughter we get age 44 for the first child, which makes it "biologically not impossible" to have five, six or more children, but not likely. -- ::Slomox:: >< 21:17, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
I vote to delete this article. There should not be an article about someone claiming to be something. It should be verifiable. Here is a direct quote from wikipedia " Encyclopedic content must be verifiable." What if I said I was 135? Do I get put into wikipedia? No. And I also elect to delete any other unverified longevity claims. 137.244.215.19 ( talk) 15:12, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Also, we need articles on unverified claimants as examples of why age verification is needed. Ryoung122 08:37, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
It is almost certainly the case that at least 1 human being has lived to 130, depending on how you want to define "human being". This is just another consequence of the fact of the ratio of the current and recent populations to the total that ever lived, assuming you at least go back 50,000 years. It's simply that record keeping that could capture the fact is recent and the first verified cases of supers have only occurred in the last couple of hundred years. It's certain that many living will see the 130 barrier broken so it shouldn't be stated that it's somehow impossible on the face of it. Furthermore it's likely that at least some of the cases like Tomo, Maria Olivia da Silva, etc. would in fact be corroborated if they could be. 72.228.177.92 ( talk) 01:20, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
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