Template:Did you know nominations/Adelina Domingues

Adelina Domingues
Created by Futurist110 (talk). Self nom at 07:13, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * ... that Adelina Domingues was the World's Oldest Person between May 2002 and August 2002?


 * I reviewed this article--Template:Did you know nominations/The Grove (Cold Spring, New York). Futurist110 (talk) 07:27, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Article is new and long enough, and hook is fine. I removed the stub classification. A notice on the Talk page states that an earlier article on Adelina Domingues was deleted 8 December 2007, presumably because she wasn't sufficiently notable. However she's now recognized as having been the world's oldest person for a few months in 2002. I don't know whether notability is still a problem, and perhaps other editors would comment on that, as I'm new to reviewing. NinaGreen (talk) 21:08, 29 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg A few of the source citations are bare refs, which are not allowed for DYK submissions, and others have inaccurate titles (such as the "Google Docs" one) and ought to be fixed. You might want to check with BrownHairedGirl or one of the other people who said the article should be deleted five years ago to see if the issues they had have been settled—there don't seem to be any new secondary news sources, for example—though as you point out it may be notable enough that she is now considered to have been the World's Oldest Person for a few months, something that wasn't established until earlier this year. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:36, 29 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I'll fix it whenever I can, hopefully tomorrow. Futurist110 (talk) 10:38, 30 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I left a message, as per the suggestion above, on BrownHairedGirl's Talk page yesterday asking for her views as to whether the concerns which led to the earlier deletion have been met in the current article. NinaGreen (talk) 19:08, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

I have now fixed all of the sources. Let's hope that I fixed them correctly. Futurist110 (talk) 09:01, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Sources are now OK. Two minor points. (1) I couldn't find any mention of 'baptismal information' in the cited source. (2) Re the sentence: 'Domingues remains in the sixty oldest verified undisputed people ever list'. Firstly, it's unclear from the cited source why the number sixty was chosen. Secondly, the wording is a bit awkward. I'd like to wait another day for comments from BrownHairedGirl as the holiday season is just finishing up, and she may not yet have seen the message I left on her Talk page. NinaGreen (talk) 19:44, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UeAeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bUUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6039,2746662&dq=adelina-domingues&hl=en -- This source is cited in the article and talks about her baptism info being found. I just checked this source again, so I'm sure I'm right when it pertains to this. As for the 60 oldest verified people ever, I chose 60 because it is a nice, round, number and because 50 won't work anymore (since she is below spot 50). Would you prefer that the number be 75 or 100 instead? 60 is the more accurate number and is a good number because it is round (perfectly divisible by 10). I didn't check yet whether BrownHairedGirl responded, but I did see that some other people agreed that this article should be kept now that she has been recognized as the World's Oldest Person for three months in 2002. Futurist110 (talk) 01:51, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Good to go! I had a problem scrolling to the bottom of the cited source for the baptismal record earlier, and thus missed seeing the mention of it. 60 is a good round number, seeing she's below 50. I still found the wording of the last sentence a bit awkward, so I changed it to 'Even today, over a decade after her death, Domingues remains among the sixty oldest verified supercentenarians'. Hope that's fine with you. NinaGreen (talk) 02:09, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm fine with whatever changes you make. Futurist110 (talk) 03:26, 3 January 2013 (UTC)