[WikiEN-l] WP:V strikes again!

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/5/13 Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Al Tally <majorly.wiki at 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.