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 wikidata-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org On Behalf Of Robert Fernandez Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 11:10 AM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [External] Re: [Wikidata] Birth dates in Wikidata
For those of us not familiar with trismegistos.orghttp://trismegistos.org/, 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.commailto:andrewdblack@googlemail.com> wrote:
I have noticed that some records in Wikidata are using a site trismegistos.orghttp://trismegistos.org to establish birth dates. This is giving some odd results!
An instance is here
https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55088584https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55088584
date of birth 1999 1 reference reference URL http://www.trismegistos.org/editor/7726http://www.trismegistos.org/editor/7726 named as Jill Harries retrieved 9 October 2017
Is it possible to change this behavior?
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