Talk:Centenarian
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Portraits of people
[edit]This article has long had editorial disagreement about which pictures of which people should be included. I have been bold (OK, maybe too bold) and removed them all, since there's no objective measure of why one person-over-100 should be shown and another one shouldn't. Thoughts? - DavidWBrooks (talk) 19:26, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support: I suspect most have an idea what a centenarian looks like. I agree with the removal of all images. Jim1138 (talk) 21:59, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
Centegenarian
[edit]Were people too stupid to say a big word, so they truncated it? Morkfromorc (talk) 02:18, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
main image looks bad
[edit]can barely see it on a normal laptop screen. and it's mostly a photo of empty space, with some pictures of old people in the distance at an angle from the camera anyway. any better pictures? I'm just going to remove the image. JM (talk) 22:48, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
Royal telegrams
[edit]At the moment, the article identifies this tradition as beginning in 1908 (or 1906) under Edward VII, and "formalised" in 1917 under George V. The dates were added in 2014 sourced to a "Royal Central" blogpost; the link has since been removed, presumably after the site was deprecated as unreliable. Looking on the Internet Archive, that post was hazy on whether the 1908 one was first or merely a representative sample.
For what it is worth, a quick check in the BNA throws up some examples of this in the 1890s under Victoria, eg in 1890 or 1898. I can't easily find examples before about 1890 that fit the modern form, though - there's a telegram mentioned in 1883 but probably to someone personally known to Victoria.
I also can't seem to see anything in 1917 indicating there was a change at that point - the 1917 articles mentioning a royal telegram seem to be much the same as the 1916 ones, and there is about the same number of them. Likewise I could not see any mention of a change in practice for anniversary telegrams, and I could find one of those mentioned as early as 1910. I wonder if it is worth us removing these specific dates/names and avoiding saying exactly when the tradition began? Andrew Gray (talk) 20:00, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
- Digging around, the Palace has "continuing a tradition which goes back to 1917" and "began with King George V", which is at least unambiguous though it does seem to conflict with the earlier examples. It's possible that there was a decision at this point to do it systematically? But I can't seem to find a clear statement of that if so. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:55, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
Lead image
[edit]Why are we using an image of Norman Lloyd when he isn't even 100 in the photo. The image is dated to 2007, and he turned 100 in 2014. Surely there's a better option. HendoCamel'923 (talk) 01:30, 4 May 2026 (UTC)