Thread:Sesefied/@comment-26912590-20191022170011

Hi! I'm messaging you because in the last few days, I've been checking the contestants' ages in every season to correct any mistakes I could find, and I found out there were a lot of them, especially in the 20s.

My understanding of the consensus on the ages is that you always take how old they were during filming (since you recently changed Kathy's age in Marquesas to 46 instead of 47). So that sould leave no ambiguity for contestants who had their birthday outside of filming dates.

The problem is for contestants that had their birthday within filming dates. One of the options would be to take everyone's age either on the first day or last day of filming. The cons of that method is a contestant's age could be a month off if an endgamer has their birthday in the first days of filming, or if an early boot has their birthday on the last days of filming.

Ultimately, the method I've used when checking everyone's age was to take their age on the last day they were in the game, as I thought it was the fairest method of representing everyone's age. The hypothetical issue with this method would be that two people having the exact same age would be listed under different ages should they have their birthday during filming, and one is an early boot and the other an endgamer. But fortunately, Natalie and Nadiya did not have their birthday during filming, and the probability of a problematic case happening is lower than with the other method.

I thought that this method was the consensus, and I've made a spreadsheet of every contestant's age using this method and was I about to ask for the green light to correct every wrong age on the wiki, until I saw your edit today of Tijuana's age in Pearl Islands. She turned 27 the day after her elimination, so under this method she would be listed as 26. Now I'm a bit confused about what the consensus actually is for contestants who have their birthday during filming, so I want to ask you (or any other admin that reads this) what the wiki's policy is regarding the contestants' ages, so I can edit my spreadsheet if necessary.

Here is my spreadsheet as it is now: https://i.imgur.com/OCSNEmr.png

I've highlighted the contesants whose age on the wiki is wrong according to my method. In RED, the contestants who had their birthday outside of filming dates, so their age on the wiki is wrong regardless of the method used. In BLUE, the contestants who had their birthday during filming, and whose age on the wiki is wrong according to the method I've used, but could be correct if using a different method.

Though, I've only highlighted the ones that are wrong according to my methodd, so if this method is incorrect according to the wiki's policy on ages, then some of the ages that are listed as correct on the spreadsheet could turn out to be wrong, so I'd have to check again. 