User:Ed Poor/Superlatives

Superlatives include tallest building, oldest human being, longest fence in the world, and so on. We need to develop standards for these. Before calling someone or something the first or biggest, we need to consider whether we are making that determination based on common sense, or WP:OR, or a WP:RS.

List of superlatives

• Derrick Bell, first black tenured Harvard Law School professor
• Martha McSally
  1. first woman in U.S. history to fly a fighter aircraft into combat
  2. first woman to command a combat aviation squadron
  3. highest-ranking female combat pilot in the USAF
• first female ruler of England => Empress Matilda

United States Politics

Federal government

President of the United States

• George Washington - First President of the United States
• Abraham Lincoln - First Republican President of the United States
• Barack Hussein Obama - First African American President of the United States