"*what Wikipedia actually requires: not primary sources like birth certificates, but secondary ones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2NVH21MEe0 – publicly available sources in which her birthdate is mentioned.*" -> This is not exactly true. That would be the kind of document that could be required by someone in OTRS in order to certify her birth date. And birth certificates are issued by official third party, reliable sources, so I don't see how can they be considered a "primary source". Unless you are talking about primary sources in History, but in that case those would often be the best possible sources one can use in a Wikipedia article.
Best, Paulo
Alexandre Hocquet alexandre.hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr escreveu no dia sexta, 15/02/2019 à(s) 18:08:
Dear Education listers,
As a historian of science in higher education, I have been developping a course focusing on Wikipedia in recent years, and some may have heard of the WikiMOOC I presented at Wikimania MOntreal (though I only played a modest role in the WikiMOOC saga)
My course is pedagocally relying on anecdotes that say much about Wikipedia principles, Wikipedia comunity and how Wikipedia is regarded.
I am today very happy that my first anecdote in English has been published. It's about OLivia Colman's birthdate and how the press likes to ridicule Wikipedia, yet fact checking is actually done by Wikipedians instead of journalists, so I can't resist to self promote it here:
https://theconversation.com/no-wikipedia-didnt-get-actress-olivia-colmans-bi...
Comments welcome
Alexandre Hocquet
Université de Lorraine & Archives Henri Poincaré Alexandre.Hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet
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