Ray Saintonge wrote:
One secondary source that uses 1904 for Jeane
Dixon's birth is
IMDB, but they err in their link to her husband James Dixon. He
was an acquaintance of Hal Roach, and the Dixons were married in
1939, but the linked James Dixon was *born* in 1939.
In my experience, IMDB is hugely unreliable as a secondary source,
notably because the material can be edited by you and me (provided you
have an account); and while it is all subject to editorial review, a
good portion of the data is accepted without question.
So they suffer from the same crowd sourcing problems as Wikipedia? ;-)
If we are aware of its problems we are warned to proceed with caution.
That's not entirely a knockout blow to it as a source.
Ec