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Birth date citations

I am working on a personal research project where I have extracted 750,000 dates of birth from Misplaced Pages. Whilst validating the data, I have thrown up hundreds of errors where Misplaced Pages has conflicting information. I am currently in the process of fixing these problems, but in doing so I have hit upon another problem!

I may be biased because I am working on problem articles, but my impression is that dates of births rarely have a citation. I have found many articles with one date in the text, another in the infobox eg Ayoub Skouma, William Patrick Fyfe. These never have a reference I can check, but whoever added the date must have seen it somewhere. I have seen others where someone has changed a day, month or year without explanation. I would have no idea if that was vandalism or someone correcting the article. A date of birth is the one item that every biography starts with, it should have a reliable source.

I am just letting off steam really, but I would like to hear some opinions. Should we start tagging dates of birth with or deleting dates of birth without citation (some celebrities find their age contentious). Maybe a date of birth correctly sourced option in the project box? Periglio (talk) 08:10, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

For BLPs I just delete dates of birth if they aren't sourced well. Dougweller (talk) 12:54, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Removing hundreds of thousands of birth dates could be controversial :) I have been checking a few random celebrities, none had a specific date of birth reference. Periglio (talk) 13:52, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Sara Jeannette Duncan

I've substantially improved the bio at Sara Jeannette Duncan but I'm going to struggle on the literary side of things. I'm posting this here and at the feminism project (the literature project doesn't have scope, the books project is too specific) in the hope that someone might be able to make a better job of it than I'm likely to do - there are plenty of sources out there, lit. crit. and otherwise, including at GBooks and JSTOR. Duncan was a Canadian who wrote mostly about Anglo-Indian society and had both a strong feminist angle and a Tariff Reform League-based interpretation of imperialism. I've got some bare bones in but I'm going to end up with far too many quotes unless someone with more clue can help out with the "Works" section. It may need a "Themes" section also. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 13:34, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Rewritten Introduction

I found the quality of the writing lacking in the introduction and therefore took upon myself to make simple revisions to make the article more presentable. Breckham101 (talk) 03:27, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

New essay: Historical portraits

I've been drafting a new essay that I thought people in this project might be interested in: User:Future Perfect at Sunrise/Historical portraits. Comments welcome! Thanks, – Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:00, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Discussion at Template talk:WikiProject Biography#RfC: BDP in Biography template

You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:WikiProject Biography#RfC: BDP in Biography template. Thanks. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 20:34, 20 August 2014 (UTC)Template:Z48

Content inclusion or exclusion

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jose Antonio Vargas#2011 License revocation. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 01:32, 21 August 2014 (UTC)Template:Z48

Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Michelle Obama/archive3

Please come comment at Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Michelle Obama/archive3.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:53, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

FAR

I have nominated John Mayer for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Snuggums (talk / edits) 18:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Leo Gordon

there is a lot of inaccurate info in this Gordon wiki biography. First of all, the army discharge statement is false and the original referenced source, or supporting article does not mention the discharge at all. Second he was shot by the police, according to third party articles and not a bar patron during the robbery attempt. Third, your filmography section is pathetic, Gordon has a very long list of films that he appeared in and many of them were well known films with John Wayne, etc.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.134.202.242 (talk • contribs) 13:23, 26 August 2014

This needs to be discussed at Talk:Leo Gordon. You can click the "new section" tab at the top right of the page and copy and paste your comments above to that page. Thank you.--JayJasper (talk) 16:48, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

image layout - Nancy Kominsky

Could someone please take a look at the image layout on Nancy Kominsky? Kozmick has added some large images, and set the infobox image to a painting rather than a photograph. We have a difference of opinion on how the images should best be sized and positioned. Nick Number (talk) 15:27, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Images reduced and placed in table. re: 'set the infobox image to a painting rather than a photograph.'

I call your attention to biography of painter Vincent van Gough wherein the image in the info box is a self-portrait.

http://en.wikipedia.org/Van_Gogh

I respectfully suggest, that if it's good enough for VvG then it's good enough for Nancy Kominsky.

kozmick - Michael A Kominsky

(Kozmick (talk) 15:57, 28 August 2014 (UTC))

I'll concede the point on the infobox, but the two images above the gallery still don't fit with the other visual elements. Compare their size and placement with those of the images in that van Gogh article. Nick Number (talk) 14:33, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Andreas Schleicher

We would like to be able to provide an update for the article entry for Andreas Schleicher to reflect his current status and CV: http://www.oecd.org/edu/andreas-schleicher.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by OECD edtoday (talk • contribs) 16:33, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks To Misplaced Pages To Empower Women

Misplaced Pages Our Website... I Am Very Glad To Comment That Supporting And Emporing Our Women Will Make A Big Difference In Our Nations. It Is Automatic Development In Human Life! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martin Makokha (talk • contribs) 18:36, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

RFC on future jobs

Please see Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Biographies#Inclusion of future job positions in infobox, list, etc. for an RFC based on the appointment of Catholic bishops but seeking to gain consensus for all biography articles. Elizium23 (talk) 01:04, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Banner header for new WP

Hello. I've created a new WP, Women writers. An editor mentioned on the project's talkpage that a bot could be used to place banner headers on the pages which fall under the project's scope (articles in Category:Women writers). AnomieBOT requires approval from affected projects before it starts tagging so I'm seeking that approval from WP:WPBIO. Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:36, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Mention of child sexual abuse cases at the Personal relationships of Michael Jackson article

Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Personal relationships of Michael Jackson#Removal of child sexual abuse cases. A WP:Permalink is here. Flyer22 (talk) 17:05, 2 September 2014 (UTC)