Talk:Walter Breuning

message: Should we add a day counter to his infobox? He is, after all, the world's oldest living man. What are your views? 218.186.12.227 (talk) 12:24, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. I think there's little point in giving the day counter if it's to be hidden in the text (see first paragraph). I think we'd better be upfront with his age in years and days. 218.186.12.225 (talk) 11:03, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Day counter?

message: Does Walter have a middle name? If so...what is it? --Nick Ornstein (talk) 23:34, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears he may not have one. Your unverified list caught my attention. It's a shame more can't be done there since if even one of those in the top 5 pannned out it would displace Jeanne Calment. What do you think the likelihood is that one of them is actually their purported age? In a case like Maria Olivia, even if there a no birth record, you would think there would at least be something from her childhood or young adulthood that gives a clue. The age of the adopted son does not seem like convincing counter evidence to me in and of itself. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 13:07, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: at the age of 11? 77.127.114.192 (talk) 19:46, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't see why not. I was. I started kindergarten one year and finished that academic year at the end of 1st grade. I began the 7th grade academic year at 11 and ended it at 12. Prolly similiar for him being in a rural area. Lycurgus (talk) 07:39, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seventh grade 

message: Congratulations from Russia, Mr. Breuning! 109.205.248.233 (talk) 00:45, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Now among 100 oldest people ever 

message: Should this be mentioned in the article? It’s from his retirement home’s website:
http://www.rainbowalf.com/p/assisted_living/ask_walter/great-falls-mt-59401-3152/rainbow-retirement-3315
As the summary says:
“Click the "ask walter" button to the right to enter your question for
Walter Bruening. His responses will be filmed on Tuesday, August 31,
2010 and linked to this site. Ask Walter about his 113+ years of
experiences.”
TomRed (talk) 17:30, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ask Walter 

message: I have used this article as an example in a discussion at WT:N.  The focus of the discussion is intended to be generalized... what happens to the notability of record holders when someone else takes the record (in terms of this article... the question is what happens to Walter's notability when he dies, and someone else becomes the oldest man).  Please feel free to swing by and comment. Blueboar (talk) 14:48, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Notability is NOT temporary, he will still be notable because he was the worlds oldest man. Longevitydude (talk) 16:36, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  FYI 

message: Is becoming one of the 70th oldest people ever worth listing under his records/longevity achievements. All of his other records are very notable (oldest man in the world, in minnesota, third oldest in world, etc.)and top 70 of the oldest ever really does not seem worth listing.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.40.131.54 (talk) 02:32, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Records

message: If there's anything in the wikipedia or wiktionary entries for "Incumbent" that suggests the use of that word in a succession box about longevity, it's exceedingly well-hidden. This is all of a piece with the deeply unencyclopedic view that old age is a contest, whose "winners," "record-holders," and "record-breakers" are inherently notable. David in DC (talk) 00:33, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Incumbent]] 

message: The "natural cause" is currently undisclosed. We cannot know ATM if it will turn out to be a condition which was ignored due to Walter's age and might have been treatable had it been diagnosed and addressed in time. Unlike most supers, Walter was more or less healthy. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 17:06, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cause of death 

message: Does anyone know who the Oldest American Man is know that Walter has died, might be good if we could find out so we could put it at the bottom of the page.  I was looking at the living Supercentenarian list and it does not look like there are any American Men who are currently over 110.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.98.40.217 (talk) 21:55, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There doesn't appear to be an undisputed male super. Albert Plummer is 111+ but apparently he's disputed. Not unexpected as > 90% of supers are female. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 01:00, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Shelby Harris is I think the sole current verified male American super. The Plummer case seems to have gone nowhere. 72.228.189.184 (talk) 04:12, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oldest American Man 

message: Suggest meaningless petty factoids in last two sentences of current lede be removed. Lycurgus (talk) 19:13, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  trivializing dingleberry sentences 

message: Woodrow Wilson last ran for President in 1916, when Breuning was 20. The 26th Amendment wasn't adopted until 1971, so he probably wasn't eligible to vote in that election for President since he was under 21.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.120.161.230 (talk) 20:41, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  How did Breuning vote for Wilson when he was 20? 

message: Wikipedia is very liberal with it's naming of World War One Veteran. All you need to do is have enlisted with a participation nation before the war ended of the world. Florence Green who is the last veteran only served for a couple months as a waitress on an airbase. I wonder if enlisting with the US would make him a world war one veteran and likewise the last of the doughboys (American Veterans) having outlived Frank. W. Buckles by a couple months (I Dan tha Man I (talk) 04:14, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doughboy status 

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