CanoeUnlined

August 2017

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thank you for your feedback, 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco. i'll be sure to look at the style guide so that i don't cause disruption moving forward. just doing my best to provide strong contributions to this website, so i'm glad you identified an area on which i can strengthen my editing. CanoeUnlined (talk) 23:09, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Birth dates

Hi, CanoeUnlined, and welcome to Wikipedia! Ryan Reynolds' birth date actually is cited under "Early life," and I'll find out for David Fincher. Birth dates (and birthplace, middle/full names, parents, siblings, educational claims) are all personal-life details that per WP:BLP need to be reliably cited. (IMDb, like other wikia, is not allowed as a reference citation.) There are probably a couple hundred thousand biographical articles on Wikipedia, many with errors, violations and uncited claims of all sorts. It'll take us a while to get to them all, but in the meantime, especially with biographies of living people, we need to do everything we can to get personal details right. I find Biography.com, FilmReference.com and AllMusic.com to be good RS sources for birth dates and birthplaces (although AllMovie.com's bio details are user-generated and so not-RS). Thanks for understanding and for contributing! --Tenebrae (talk) 16:44, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

i appreciate your response to my note on your Talk page, Tenebrae. definitely appreciate the guidance on where to find good sources for birthdays. i'm going to do some digging for Tim Miller (director) and will provide adequate sourcing if i find it. CanoeUnlined (talk) 23:09, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

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