Talk:Taiwo Olowo

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As I explained in my edit summary, the categories in question are not for use on longevity claims. That is what this is, there is absolutely no verification of his age. See WP:WikiProject Longevity for reliable sources on human longevity. This is not anywhere approaching a fully validated supercentenarian claim (it's actually one of the most absurd ones I've seen yet) and therefore belongs in Category:Longevity claims. Also, the article in general needs a serious rewrite to be far more realistic about the bullshit "120 year old" claim. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 00:13, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * There's nothing dubious in the article because the subject's year of birth has been stated in the multiple reliable sources. In my opinion; this situation looks like another instance of racial bias in Wikipedia. There are over a hundred articles on supercentenarians of other nationalities, races or ethnicities in the English Wikipedia. Why is the validity of the sole existing two from Africa being questioned? - Eruditescholar (talk) 09:09, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Well this discussion got poisoned quickly. First of all, there's a list of African supercentenarians who no one is questioning, plus an article (for the time being anyway) on Adelina Domingues where her claim is not disputed. The two claimants from Nigeria are being questioned because there's no proof whatsoever the claims are true. No, there's no racism here, just a total lack of modern verification standards. Exceptional claims require exceptional sources, and those are lacking here; none of these reliable sources show any effort to verify this age claim. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 13:45, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * My point is still relevant here because out of all the "African" supercentenarians on that list, none of them is from Subsaharan Africa. Besides, these supercentenarians either have white ancestry, lived in a country with a significant white presence (Cape Verde; South Africa, etc.) or migrated to other countries outside Africa. The multiple sources used in the Nigerian articles in terms of quality and authenticity are no different from the ones used in the other articles. No matter how you try to paint the picture or convince me with the phrase "modern verification standards", I beg to differ. Eruditescholar (talk) 04:19, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
 * There are a myriad of stories from people all over the world claiming to have lived to ridiculous ages. Wikipedia treats all of those, no matter where the people happen to be from, as unverified claims. No, none of the sources cite any documentary evidence that he was born in 1781 at all, which is entirely different from the articles on validated supercentenarians. If you go through those, you'll see at least one source in all of them which cites actual documentation of that person's age (Guinness, the Gerontology Research Group, etc.). This is not present here, and Wikipedia is not in the business of righting great wrongs. Cite for me one source which shows documentary evidence of his age, from an entity specializing in age verification. This is necessary because the specific claim is to have been the oldest man in history, and exceptional claims require exceptional sources; there are exactly none, so treating this as uncritically accepted fact is massively WP:UNDUE. And lay off the accusations of racism. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 04:43, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Claiming to be the oldest man in history at years older than the highest recorded verified age would be very notable if it could be verified. Until there are really good sources we can't accept this claim as true. This has zero to do with race and everything to do with verifiability. Legacypac (talk) 05:55, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
 * As I haven't heard anything, I boldly changed it to what I initially implemented. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 18:36, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Age
1840s was his most early mentioning so he could have been born as early as 1825, making him quite younger — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.217.62 (talk) 09:00, 22 February 2020 (UTC)