Talk:William Dummer

Dates
In its current state, the article is inconsistent and self-contradictory on his dates. William Dummer was born in 1677, in an area and time when the Julian calendar was in force. The Gregorian calendar had been adopted (in 1751) before Dummer's death in 1761. At the very least, this requires us to specify in which calendar we are giving the dates - this has been done, more or less, in footnote 5, but we need to be more obvious, and do what we say we have done. We shouldn't state all dates are Gregorian when some of them are Julian. But there are other problems. The article states he was baptized on October 10, 1677 (in one place), on September 29/October 10, 1677 in another, and that he was born on October 10, 1677 in the Infobox. It seems clear that he was baptized on 29 September 1677 (O.S.), which corresponds to 10 October 1677 (N.S.), and that the date has been wrongly given as a proleptic Gregorian date, and that his date of baptism has been mistaken for a date of birth. I will edit the article to reflect this. I don't know if any of the other dates are also Julian but have failed to be so noted, and so go against what we say in footnote 5. - Nunh-huh 16:29, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

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