User talk:Geraab

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Birth dates

Hi. I wanted to explain why I reverted a change you made to Richard Tyson. In this edit, you added a birth date, but you didn't cite a reliable source. Wikipedia has strict rules on content in biographies of living persons because this can impact real peoples' lives. Please be aware that many sites on the internet purport to give information about celebrities, but few of them are considered reliable by Wikipedia's standards. Sites like the IMDb use user-generated content, and they should not be cited in biographical articles. Similarly, celebrity gossip websites should not be used because most of them don't have a history of fact checking or publishing corrections. Fan sites and blogs are self-published and have no editorial control. We also can't use primary documents, such as government birth databases or genealogical websites (which are also typically user-generated, as above). Film aggregators, such as Rotten Tomatoes, are fine for quoting the reception of a film, but it is not reliable enough for biographies. This means that the number of available sources is quite slim, and we often have to either go without this information or wait until a source like Entertainment Weekly or the BBC publishes an interview that includes a birth date. If you're not sure whether a source is reliable, you can ask at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:37, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Okay thanks for the detailed explanation. It's handy. I understand. Maybe it's best if the current birth year in the article is removed because it may be wrong. By the way what if I find a NBC or CBS article about Tyson and has his birthday, would that be a reliable source? Thanks Geraab (talk) 17:48, 26 February 2024 (UTC)