Since she’s professor emerita and got her PhD in 1981 it does seem a little odd that she would be born in 1999….
Merrilee Proffitt Senior Manager, OCLC Research Library Partnership From: Wikidata <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Robert Fernandez Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 11:10 AM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <[email protected]> Subject: [External] Re: [Wikidata] Birth dates in Wikidata For those of us not familiar with trismegistos.org<http://trismegistos.org/>, could you tell us what is wrong with using it as a source? On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 12:37 PM Andrew Black <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I have noticed that some records in Wikidata are using a site trismegistos.org<http://trismegistos.org> to establish birth dates. This is giving some odd results! An instance is here https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55088584<https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55088584> date of birth 1999 1 reference reference URL http://www.trismegistos.org/editor/7726<http://www.trismegistos.org/editor/7726> named as Jill Harries retrieved 9 October 2017 Is it possible to change this behavior? [apologies if I am using lax terminology, or if this is not the best place to ask] _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata>
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