[WikiEN-l] Age fabrication and original research

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:58 AM, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could phrase it like this:
>
> "The SSDI says 1904[source] while all these other publications say
> 1918[source]." Or you could discredit the reliability of the sources (which
> would be the right thing to do, since the SSDI is not likely to get birth
> dates wrong) and just say "Dixon was born in 1904.[source]"

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Is it common to get birth years wrong by 14 years?

Carcharoth