User talk:MediaBuff269

Dana Barron edit
I have reverted your addition of an unsourced date of birth to Dana Barron. In addition to Wikipedia's basic principle of citing sources (Citing sources), a special need for citations applies with regard to elements of a biography of a living person (WP:BLPPRIVACY). Feel free to add a date of birth when it is accompanied by a citation to a reliable, published, non-primary source. Eddie Blick (talk) 00:50, 5 July 2023 (UTC)


 * There is literally many sources on Google confirming her birthdate being April 22, 1966. Max Sheridan Gilbert (talk) 01:17, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm sure that a Google search will result in many sources that give a date of birth for any celebrity the searcher names. That is not in question.
 * Two important points are relevant to my removal of the source, and I tried to address them in my initial message above.
 * Verifiabiilty is essential to the credibility of articles in Wikipedia. A reader should be able to verify a fact by checking with the cited source. When a date of birth (or any other fact) has no citation, that violates the policy of verifiability. I should add that sources used in Wikipedia articles must also be Reliable. Unfortunately, many online sources that turn up in results of Google searches fail to meet Wikipedia's standard of reliablility.
 * Because Dana Barron is a living person, WP:BLPPRIVACY applies to her date of birth and other personal information. That is a stricter standard than what I summarized in the preceding bulleted item.
 * I appreciate your wanting to add a date of birth to the article. For a date to remain in the article, however, the source must be reliable, published, and non-primary. You can evaluate the sources that Google provided and use the first one that meets those three standards in a citation to accompany the date of birth when you restore it to the article. Eddie Blick (talk) 02:59, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

As per WP:BLPPRIVACY, there are only a couple acceptable options when it comes to WP:DOB. A truly reliable Secondary source(IE a magazine such as Los Angeles Times or New York Times. And preferably multiple of these) reporting her exact DOB. Or a social media post from the subject herself where she confirms her birthday and preferably either her age or YOB in the same post as well. Failing either one of those, it should be kept out of the article for now. Google is trash when it comes to bio info like this. Because many sites web scrape without doing any fact checking and google itself can be considered a scraper site because it's search engines gather content from other sites, saves it in their own databases, index it and present the scraped content to their search engine's own users. This is why a lot of actors that have never publicly disclosed their ages or DOB end up having falsified DOBs online. Kcj5062 (talk) 06:06, 5 July 2023 (UTC)