User talk:Jorgemelis

July 2014

Hello, I'm McGeddon. Your recent edit to the page Baby boomers appears to have added incorrect information, so I have removed it for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 11:39, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, McGeddon. As I think you have made a mistake, according to your wishes, I have left a message on your talk page Jorgemelis (talk) 08:20, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I don't mean to attribute any preeminence to myself! We're all on the same level here, I'm just another editor. The issue as I saw it was that you edited the article to say that "the first recorded use of "baby boomer" is from 1941 in an article in Life", but so far as I could see the linked Life article did not use the term "baby boomer" at all, merely "baby boom" (which has a separate article and is a separate subject; presumably "baby boomer" was coined decades later from the pre-existing phrase "baby boom"). --McGeddon (talk) 17:51, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

But, if you are trying to improve the article. why don't you apply the same principles to the previous info? Why do you accept as correct the pair 1970/The Washington Post and reject the pair 1941/Life? Have you been able to read the 1970 article in The Washington Post? I couldn't. What about the OED article? Have you found in it the pair 1970/The Washington Post? I couldn't. Jorgemelis (talk) 01:23, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just rejecting the 1941 OED you mention because it appears to be talking about the concept of a "baby boom", not that of "baby boomers". I have no opinion either way on the 1970 source. What does your OED have to say about "baby boomer"? --McGeddon (talk) 12:54, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]