Talk:Mo Shariff

Place of birth
A number of sources list Shariff as being born in Newham rather than Burundi. The ever-reliable Find My Past lists an Abdulla Mohamed Sharif as being born in Newham in 1993, a very similar name to the one registered with the Premier League (cited on the page). Based on this, I would say it is too much of a coincidence and that he was probably born in Newham rather than Burundi. Given that pretty much every source lists him as English too, I think it is most likely that the QPR website is wrong on this one. Cg29692 (talk) 18:56, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Could you please provide the citations here so they can be reviewed? Then I will take this to WT:FOOTY for wider input. Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 19:00, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Playfair Football Annual 2012-2013


 * Football Squads
 * Altom Football

Some other sources confuse his two potential birth places and list him as being born in "Newham, Burundi", but there is nowhere in Burundi with that name. Cg29692 (talk) 01:22, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I will take this to WT:FOOTY tomorrow for discussion, if you can wait before making any changes to the article. JMHamo (talk) 01:27, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

I have looked him up on Ancestry.com (subscription required), which list a Abdulla Mohamed Sharif as born in Newham in 1992 (birth registered in July 1992 quarter) with a mother's maiden name of Saad. You will see the date differs to the subject of the article. -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 13:44, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I had another look on Findmypast.co.uk and that also lists his birth as 1992. Having said that, from experience of using the site, they are sometimes a year out on the birth date. 23:56, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * The birth date is based on the quarter in which the birth is registered. This is usually that in which the birth occurs or the following; it can never be before the birth, so the guy on Ancestry cannot be the subject of the article, whose birth was a year later. ---    Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 04:52, 4 April 2014 (UTC)