2009/5/13 Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com:
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Al Tally majorly.wiki@googlemail.com wrote:
So is he 58 or 40? His article currently says he was born in 1951, but there's no reference.
Erm. Isn't it pretty clear he's 58? The whole poem is him humorously denying that he's 58 and pretending to a youthful 40.
The reason I posted it is because he's clearly gently mocking Wikipedia's policies on published material. 'If a guy says in a published poem that he is 40...obviously that must be the age that he is [despite all the other evidence that he's 58]'
I'm not sure this poem can be taken as a reliable source that he is 58, but it most certainly can't be taken as any kind of source that he is 40. It is quite clear that the poem isn't intended to be taken seriously.