um can anyone verify mary elizabeth sheridan she's listed on imdb and recently had her st birthday but she's nowhere to be seen on this wikipedia page can anyone do some research or verification link preceding unsigned comment added by talk contribs before any such process is started you should first confirm this person is actually still alive i strongly doubt that but in the case she is it would of course be worth trying to validate her however if the birthdate is correct in imdb she had her th birthday not st oldest people in the world graph i see that jughead has added a pretty nifty graph which represents all known oldest people at a given time from to the present date but i can see a few problems right off the top for one the chart should start from which is really where the record starts in any substantive manner as that is when the record started to be kept and subsequently amended back to while we may be able to compile a list of oldest people going back into the th century besides the fact that patchy birth records make such a compilation somewhat meaningless any compilation beyond what already exists on this page would be original research secondly it is hard to really understand what the graph represents with a lot of tiny dots close clusters of dots really represent the fact that record holders held the title briefly a low cluster means someone held the record for a long time which was only really true after the chart implies that betsy baker who is represented by the dot circa held the record for a whopping years which is obviously not so and thirdly the current record holder just turned yet is shown as being my suggestion would be to keep the vertical axis as is but to create a bar graph for individual years of birth starting with the first record holder betsy baker's birth year draw a bar for the maximum age attained for any person born in that year and do the same for each year up to the most recent birth year for which no people are proven still alive and this would not be original research as there is a page with this list there is someone for each year save there hello thanks for pointing out those mistakes jack i'll try to improve the graph soon fell free to offer any more suggestions