[WikiEN-l] Age fabrication and original research

[Steve Bennett]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:32 AM, FT2 <ft2.wiki at 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