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(a)lists.wikimedia.org> On Behalf Of Robert
Fernandez
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 11:10 AM
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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]
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