Sydney aka FloNight wrote:
--- Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
I would say that most of the very basic data persondata is concerned with is largely correct. I have found that simple things like birth and death dates are usually correct. However, since this tool is human mediated, it may be a good opportunity to verify basic information provided by many of our biographies.
Agreed.
Sydney
"Usually" is right. However, using the interwiki-linking tool, I have seen a surprising number of articles where one or more element of the date or birth or death is either subtly off (different month or date, rarely both), or sometimes off by several years.
I wonder if it would be possible to automate the process of checking date discrepancies, since there are only a limited number of date formats used in each language, and many articles are already tagged by (assumed) birth and death year, even in Wikipedia editions which do not use persondata?
-- Neil