Category talk:Missing people

message: Should this category be included in the "Possibly living people" category? It sounds ok, except that a lot of people could be in this category, but have disappeared such a long time ago that they couldn't possibly be alive now. Like Amelia Earhart, it's not likely she's still alive, since she'd be over 100 years old now. --Phroziac . o º O (♥♥♥♥ chocolate!) 16:10, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possibly living people 

message: Andrés Nin was recently added to this category, so I came over to see what the category was. There is no explanation here. His fate was briefly unknown; in fact, it turns out that he was killed days after his arrest. Doesn't seem to me to be very useful to use this category, but it is entirely unclear whether means people who disappeared (as in their fate is unknown) or people who were disappeared, as in they were arrested unaccountably. Nin is the latter, but not the former. I suspect that only the former is the intent of the category, but there is no clarifying text on the category page. - Jmabel | Talk 07:35, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This problem of ambiguity in the category name has been mentioned above, and there was an attempt to rename it here, as shown in the so-called "deletion" nomination mentioned above (in fact, it was a renaming nomination). If someone would put it up again for renaming, I would support it again (drop me a note on my talk page), but as I was the nominator last time round, I don't want to re-nom just yet. Carcharoth 20:44, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  It looks like now that the category has been clarified, Nin would not qualify, since his ultimate fate is now known. I have removed him. - Jmabel | Talk 02:19, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Marking this "Resolved" since the category now has sufficient documenation that such errors won't happen any longer (i.e. it is clearly not for "people who were once disappeared". — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 14:25, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Andrés Nin

message: Why 1885? should we update it every year?--89.131.125.120 (talk) 08:32, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, good question. The 1885 date was added in May 2007. Also - we need a category for people who have disappeared and are dead due to having disappeared before 1885 (or whatever the cutoff date is).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  16:00, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I object to the 1885 as being too recent.  According to Wikipedia, the oldest 'verified' person lived to 122 years.  This year, a person who was born in 1885 could be 124, a scant two years from matching the verified oldest.  It's likely that others have been older, but not verified older (especially considering that if you go back to the 1880s and earlier, it starts getting difficult to verify birth dates anyway).  While unlikely in any given case, there is always the possibility that someone who went missing years ago, fate unknown, could still be alive -- even if born in (for instance) 1881.  In fact, Elizabeth Ma Pampo Israel, a Dominican, was born in 1875 according to her baptismal certificate (issued by the Roman Catholic Church), but isn't considered "verified" because it's not an "official" document by the Guinness World standards.  (She died at the ripe old age of 128 and about nine months.)  Anyway, my point is that I don't think we can just assume anyone born before 1885 is dead now. - Apotheon (talk) 18:30, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  1885 

message: When, and if the news comes back that the remains found in the wreckage were his, would we be able to remove him from this list?--Alphamone (talk) 08:28, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Steve Fossett

message: I am wondering about other people's thoughts on missing people who have been declared dead such as Dzmitry Zavadski who currently has the missing people category as well as the Belarusian murder victims category. Should people be moved from Missing people to the Dead people category? Greyjoy talk 11:49, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Declared dead?