Talk:Jane Bunford

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message: Most of the links listed in the references go to nonexistent webpages. Should they be deleted? 69.125.134.86 (talk) 03:26, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
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message: This article is high on claims and light on evidence.
The intro says she was "2.41 metres (7 ft 11 in) at the time of her death ".
That is not referenced, so I guess it is supposed to be justified by the article text saying she was " 2.31 metres (7 ft 7 in) tall, in her final measurement taken when she was alive," but that it was estimated that she would have been 2.41 metres (7 ft 11 in) had she not developed the spinal curvature. The reference for that no longer exists.
The article says "On her 21st birthday Bunford was measured at 2.39 metres (7 ft 10 in) tall, her peak standing height". There is no reference for that claim.
In 1910 the Bartley Green council erected two plaques in the town recognising Bunford. This plaque (scroll down)  says Bunford was 7 ft 9, but this plaque has 7 ft 11. You pays yer money, and.......
The intro says "She was the tallest person in the world during her lifetime, and she still may hold two further records – that she was twice the tallest living person in the world, – between 1916 and 1919, and between 20 May 1921 and 1 April 1922". A blog was given as a reference but that is now a dead link so it is unreferenced. 
She couldn't have been world's tallest person in 1916-19 because that's when 8 ft 4 in Bernard Coyne was alive and as his article shows, his war registration card from 1918 records him at 8 ft. His article lists him as world's Tallest Recognised Person 1915?-1921.
Our text says Bunford's peak standing height was 7 ft 10 in, but that too is unreferenced. 
Why does the intro mention adjustment for spinal curvature, when height is measured from ground to top of head. Where's the reliable reference for that anyway?
Comments? Moriori (talk) 02:43, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
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message: Why is Jane Bunford recognised for being one of the UKs tallest women whilst references to Joyce Carpenter of Bromsgrove who was the shortest recorded adult in the UK have been removed? This is a clear case of Wikipedia being sizeist213.205.242.126 (talk) 08:48, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joyce Carpenter