User talk:Ab930

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Emily Dorman
If Dorman's birth year is uncertain, might it not be better to indicate that than to pick a specific source and assume it got it right? Pinkbeast (talk) 06:03, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
 * (I hope I'm doing this right and you see my answer when I post it here) Ha! Good question :) I thought the NPG was unambiguous enough until I saw a different date here: https://www.geni.com/people/Emily-Shackleton/6000000016650190953. Geni is arguably a questionable source but I'm used to seing acurate data coming from there, so I was a bit troubled. It still seems to me that mentioning a date is important, not least because she was older than him and this may have contributed to how she confidently nurtured his ambitions (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/10237058/The-women-who-inspired-polar-explorers-Shackleton-and-Scott.html) so I chose the most official source, i.e. NPG. This book also says 1868 (6 years older) though I can't access the list of refs in the book. Ab930 (talk) 14:30, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Mentioning a date is only important if it is correct, but I also think geni is a questionable source so we might just leave it be. Thanks. Pinkbeast (talk) 02:54, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

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