User talk:Alec brodzki

constantin brodzki
hello, alec brodzki! welcome to wikipedia. i do not know if you are related to the late constantin brodzki, but your username and the fact that you recently edited the article on him suggests that you are.

do you mind mentioning how you know the date of constantin's death? the best reliable source that wikipedia was able to obtain was apparently an article on rtbf that was published on 2021.03.28, but does not actually mention his date of death. also, we currently have no sources that mention his location of death.

anyway, hope you are well. dying (talk) 04:08, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

hello again. i wanted to let you know that i have restored the assertion that constantin brodzki also grew up in finland to the article on him because this article on wallpaper states that he did. may i ask why you removed this from the wikipedia article on him? dying (talk) 18:09, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello I'm the son of Constantin Brodzki and I was with him and my family when he died saturday 27/03/2021 at 20h in Linkebeek (suburb of Brussels). He was raised in Germany and Poland and left to Belgium just before the war. He travelled to Finland with his father who was a diplomat but not long enough to mention it. Be careful, journalists write lot of mistakes. Thanks. Yours sincerely. Alexandre Lodzia Brodzki.
 * thanks for your response. yes, unfortunately, journalists make mistakes, since they are human.  similarly, wikipedia editors rely on reliable sources such as established journalists because they are human too, and it seems like the best alternative available.  after all, what if there was someone who wanted to intentionally destroy your father's legacy?  should this person be allowed to change whatever they wanted on wikipedia?  if other editors asked why the changes were made, and this malicious person said that they knew the truth because they personally knew your father, but provided no proof of any of these claims, should the other editors believe this person?  the wikipedia guideline on reliable sources does have its faults, but it is largely there to protect wikipedia from bad actors.
 * may i suggest that you contact other sources in order to correct your father's date of death? for example, it looks like the Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage can be easily contacted here, and they are displaying the incorrect date here.  correcting the date in a reliable source would help preserve the correct information on wikipedia, since otherwise, a future wikipedia editor with good intentions may find the incorrect date in a reliable source and change the date here back to the wrong one.
 * in any case, i will remove the mention of finland from the article on your father. thanks for your feedback and contributions.  dying (talk) 03:13, 15 April 2021 (UTC)