Smalyshev added a comment. I think obviously wrong dates should not be allowed, even if a source says so, unless we get a special calendar model for that. Because claiming that somebody was born on 32th of July is meaningless. Wikidata was supposed to be *data* repository, and "32th July in Gregorian Calendar" is not meaningful data. In Wikipedia, which is free-form narrative text, it's fine, but Wikidata I think should be machine-readable, which means the data actually has to make some sense. Of course, you can insert junk data, but it would be useless to 99% of use cases since you can not do anything with it except for displaying it as is. Moreover, every time you write code to handle it (such as displaying "X years old" in infobox) you'd have to make special case for broken data. I think that would be doing the users a disservice. If we claim the date is Gregorian or Julian, it should be a valid Gregorian or Julian date.
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