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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Are you interested in accepting suggestions for new entries to your website? |
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No. Until further notice, please limit your correspondence to informing me of updates or errors you find to the site's existing entries. |
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How do you decide who gets added to your site and who doesn't? |
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It's a total judgment call, but since I run the site, I get to make the call! Long gone are the days when I tried to accommodate everyone who wrote to me. As the late entertainer Rick Nelson so aptly sang, "You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself." |
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What makes someone noted enough to be included on your site? |
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The entries I include on my site are individuals I feel have achieved - either nationally or internationally - a consequential measure of recognition in their respective fields, e.g., literature, the arts, sports, science, politics, business, etc. |
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Can my 104-year-old grandmother be added to your site? |
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Is she noted (see above criterion)? If not, then no. Besides, with the exception of a couple of the world's oldest individuals - supercentenarians - I don't wish to add anyone just for being old. That's not the purpose of this website. The purpose is to recognize people who were noted during their lifetimes and then grew old. |
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How do you determine who to include as the world's oldest individuals on your "Pre-1910" page? |
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I use the list compiled by the Gerontology Research Group. To access their current "Validated Living Supercentenarians" page, click here. |
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Are you connected with the Gerontology Research Group? |
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No, not at all. If you think you know someone who qualifies as a supercentenarian, contact one of the individuals listed at the bottom of the "Validated Living Supercentenarians" page referenced above. |
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Can you guarantee that everyone on your website is still alive? |
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To the best of my knowledge, everyone listed on this site is still alive. If you find evidence to the contrary, however, please let me know. |
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How do you decide what year or birth date to list for an entry? |
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I go with whatever I find the most of on the Internet and use my best judgment. |
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Why are some of the pictures linked to Wikipedia? And why are some of the links not in English? |
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I link the pictures to Wikipedia so I'll have a quick way of checking if a person on the site is listed as still alive. Regardless of what language the article is in, I can spot if a death date has been added. |
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Why are the "In Memoriam" pages limited to only those individuals who were on your site when they were alive? |
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The "In Memoriam" pages are simply an archival record of people who appeared on the website before they died. I have no interest whatsoever in maintaining a list of "miscellaneous" noted nonagenarians and centenarians who pass away. |
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Do you personally know the people on your site? If so, how can I contact them? |
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No. I don't personally know any of the individuals on my site. If you wish to write to them, my suggestion is to do a Google search of celebrity addresses. |
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Why doesn't your website have a search engine? |
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It's beyond my computer skills. |
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When did you start this website? |
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I didn't. It was started in 1997 by a man named Chris Cleary. Chris graciously allowed me to take over the site in 2005 when time constraints made it hard for him to continue as webmaster. I hear from him every once in a while, and he's doing well. |
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What are your credentials for running this website? |
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This is just a fun hobby for me, like stamp collecting. It's not how I make my living. And FYI, I have neither a research staff nor a research library at my disposal. It's just me and the Internet. |
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Is the cost of running the NN&C pages subsidized by anyone? |
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No. I have no government, university, or private funding. The cost, which is minimal, comes out of my own pocket. |
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Do you make money from the website? |
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No. It's solely for educational, informational purposes. |
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To whom is the website dedicated? |
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It's dedicated to the memory of my friend Bill Naras (1956-2005). Serdecznie dziękuję for asking! |
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Walter Breitzke |
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