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
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Subject: [External] Re: [Wikidata] Birth dates in Wikidata

For those of us not familiar with  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.com> wrote:

I have noticed that some records in Wikidata are using a site trismegistos.org to establish birth dates. This is giving some odd results!

An instance is here

https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55088584

 date of birth
 1999
 1 reference
 reference URL http://www.trismegistos.org/editor/7726
 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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