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 &lt;wikidata-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; On Behalf Of Robert Fernandez Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 11:10 AM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project &lt;wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Subject: [External] Re: [Wikidata] Birth dates in Wikidata For those of us not familiar with trismegistos.org<http://trismegistos.org/>g/>, could you tell us what is wrong with using it as a source? On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 12:37 PM Andrew Black <andrewdblack@googlemail.com<mailto:andrewdblack@googlemail.com>> 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/Q55088… date of birth 1999 1 reference reference URL http://www.trismegistos.org/editor/7726<http://www.trismegistos.org/edit… 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 Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata<https://lists.wiki…

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 18:15, Federico Leva (Nemo) &lt;nemowiki(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Thanks Federico I understand that Trimegistos lists an authors publication date , not birth date. So it is creating odd results that a retired professor was born in 1999, despite having held posts in 1976. Could you point me to who can cahange the "mix'n'match" catalog - can't say I really understand it. Andrew

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 6:36 PM Nicolas VIGNERON &lt;vigneron.nicolas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: