Talk:William Bolton (Royal Navy officer, died 1830)

Authoring and editing discussion
This is my first new article of any substance (following creation of my first, a brief one the other day), so thought I'd best put it through the review process. I know that it needs more work but intend to continue working on it here in the hope that I can pick up new tips from experienced editors. I need to learn more about Categories, and also wanted to seek opinions on the two refs I've added as alternatives to one of the citations I drew on quite a lot during the creation of the article. These are not strictly necessary but I've just noted them there in case useful. Is it worth keeping them? Laterthanyouthink (talk) 11:28, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Date of Birth
It seems highly unlikely that he was born and baptised on the same day, genealogy websites will use the baptism date as a date of birth so really need reliable source for his date of birth. MilborneOne (talk) 09:35, 27 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Yes, of course you are correct - I know this from my work in genealogy (although it does happen rarely - often for sickly babies, I think), but had taken the DOB from the long obituary cited in the references. I have now investigated further, calculated DOB date from age at date of death instead (thus showing that the obit. must have also incorrectly used the baptism date as DOB), fixed all sources and created a note for DOB here. (I don't know whether it's necessary to include that level of detail in the Wikipedia entry though, as it's now noted on at least one of the sources... But perhaps it will prove useful for someone else trying to find DOB?) Laterthanyouthink (talk) 11:00, 27 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks at least we are not repeating the same error, the LDS website was a source and they regularly confuse birth date with baptism date. MilborneOne (talk) 12:46, 27 May 2018 (UTC)