Wikipedia talk:Biographical pages with several incompatible dates of birth

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Wow, this is a great list of articles that need to be fixed. I wasn't aware that there was so much inconsistency on such basic facts on Wikipedia. I've completed 10 of them so far and it appears that the Category birthdate is usually the incorrect/outdated one. Is this the case for other people? Btw, I'm using any external links in the article entry, Google, and interwiki links to find the correct date. Mahanga^Talk 05:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

One more small comment, there are a couple articles that are actually of two (or more) people. For example, Wild Men of Borneo. Naturally, they contain different date of births and deaths. These articles are usually under Category:Multiple people or one of its sub-categories (like Category:Duos). Don't think there's too many of these, but maybe if there's an easy way to eliminate these, it'd be helpful. Mahanga^Talk 06:24, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes to what you say in your first comment, i'm not a bot-operator so would not know about the second, Tom B (talk) 10:54, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

re multiple people, I think they arrive on this list by having (or having had in May 2008 - things have been cleared up a little in that area since then) more than one birth category. Separating them out is a good idea: I'll have a go at that on the weekend. Dsp13 (talk) 12:20, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

I've separated out those who are categorized twice by birth, and put them at the bottom of the page: I think this includes all the multiple people, as well as some other pages (many of which have been resolved since May 2008). Hope that's useful. Dsp13 (talk) 18:42, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

For multiple people the categories individual to one person eg birth and death year or living person should be moved to the redirect for that person (and they should be in subcategory "Redirects from people" not "Redirects with possibilities") Hugo999 (talk) 22:23, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

PS: on second thoughts don't use the category "Redirects from people" (R from people) in double {{}} brackets as it results in a long spiel at the bottom of the article about the need to split it up. Most are categorised as married couples, duos etc anyway. And if there are two surnames, put other categories under both redirects even if they are common to both and under the main page. The name will be sorted by the first surname, hence Galton and Simpson will not appear under Simpson (even though they are both British radio & television writers). Hugo999 (talk) 04:08, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm new, and confused. This is the first top link through the community portal so I figured I'd start here, and all articles I check seem to be fine (3 or 4 checked). Is there some latency in the list, so that fixed articles are not removed immediately? How are pages marked for this list? Craig Pemberton (talk) 21:46, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

The lists were generated based on data from May 2008. Since then, people may have fixed the errors without being aware of these lists, so they didn't remove the entires from the lists, you see? If you come across any entries that are already correct, feel free to remove them and add them to your score in the contest. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 22:59, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Score? Where? How do I remove them from the list? Craig Pemberton (talk) 23:00, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

There's a contest page here. To remove an entry from the list after you've checked/corrected it, simply click the edit button for the batch under which the entry is located, and delete the entire line, including the # at the beginning. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 23:20, 6 April 2009 (UTC)