AbangL 2012

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April 2021

Hello, I'm GiantSnowman. An edit that you recently made to Ton Pattinama seemed to be a test and has been reverted. If you want to practice editing, please use your sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! GiantSnowman 13:58, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Why should he be included in the category? Please also note your signature is non-compliant with WP:SIGLINK, please change it. GiantSnowman 17:04, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

September 2021

Hi there - Wikipedia relies on reliable sources to verify information, especially about living people. You didn't provide a source for your changes to the Ton Pattinama article, and I couldn't find one either. If you have a reliable source please let me know and we can change the article. Please let me know if you have any questions. GiantSnowman 20:18, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! GiantSnowman 18:04, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Tempestt Bledsoe edit

I have reverted your addition of an unsourced date of birth to Tempestt Bledsoe. In addition to Wikipedia's basic principle of citing sources (Wikipedia:Citing sources), a special need for citations applies with regard to elements of a biography of a living person (WP:BLPPRIVACY). Feel free to add a date of birth when it is accompanied by a citation to a reliable, published, non-primary source. Eddie Blick (talk) 00:58, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi there,

I found the date of birth on the Dutch wikipedia. I now see that for instance the German and French wikipedia pages show it as well.

Searching the internet for 'tempest bledsoe' shows the date of birth on several sites (imdb, marriedbiography.org, allstarbio.com, filmreference).

Other site like https://www.yahoo.com/topics/tempestt-bledsoe/ , https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/tempestt-bledsoe-35082.php , https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/bledsoe-tempestt-1973 , https://biographyhost.com/p/tempestt-bledsoe.html , etc.) show it too.

Next to that I watched other wikipedia pages of living people and I did not see citations of birth dates there.

I can see that it would be awful to have an incorrect date of birth, but this one seems fine. AbangL 2012 (talk 10:24, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Encyclopedia.com is a valid source, so you can add the date with a citation to that website.

Several of the sources that you found are not reliable for use in citations:

• WP:CIRCULAR prohibits use of any Wikipedia in any language because all of them are WP:USERGENERATED.
• IMDb cannot be used because it is user-generated. Please see WP:IMDB for more about that site.
• FilmReference is also prohibited. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Resources#Databases

I am not familiar with the other sites that you listed, so I cannot comment on their reliability.

You commented, "Next to that I watched other wikipedia pages of living people and I did not see citations of birth dates there." Their existence does not mean that other biographies of living people should also have unsourced dates of birth.

WP:BLPPRIVACY specifies: "Wikipedia includes full names and dates of birth that have been widely published by reliable sources, or by sources linked to the subject such that it may reasonably be inferred that the subject does not object to the details being made public." The only way to show that a date of birth meets that standard is to have a citation to a widely published reliable source or the person's own official website. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:13, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanx for the help.

I've just added the date of birth. AbangL 2012 (talk 20:08, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I saw that. Thanks for adding a good citation. Eddie Blick (talk) 03:00, 19 April 2023 (UTC)