On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:32 AM, FT2 <ft2.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From a Wikipedia editorial stance, stating that
"date of birth" has multiple
reliable sources that conflict, is fine. Books state X, official government
records state Y, both are "RS" enough to be worth citing and the difference
is probably worth noting in the context of her article as well.
Yep. I'd probably list the most commonly published one in the lede,
with a footnote explaining the issue.
One place I did something slightly similar was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_McTell - see the "Note".
Steve