Re: [Wikidata] VIAF date scraping errors

2018-08-28 Thread Jane Darnell
Yes I reached the same conclusion. In fact it's even worse than 1950, and many people have been given the incorrect birthdate of "1900" for the same reason. I have started going through women items with 1900-1-1 birthdates, correcting the birthdate where possible, and where impossible (e.g. simply

[Wikidata] VIAF date scraping errors

2018-08-28 Thread Renée Bagslint
If you Google "Emily Riehl", you will find that Google tells you that she was born in 1950: this is certainly complete nonsense. Her date of birth isn't in her Wikipedia article, which is where Google gets its text from, but turns out to be in her Wikidata entry, having added by Reinheitsgebot, ope