On 3/13/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
De-slanting is not the same thing as a harmless correction. If we have no source for a birthdate, and the celebrity says it's wrong, we should just fix it.
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree there. If we have no source for a birthdate, then we shouldn't list a birthdate.
Why do we need a birthdate in an article in the first place? If a fact is so trivial that we're going to believe whatever one person tells us on the matter, then it doesn't need to be in the encyclopedia in the first place.
Anthony