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Dori | Talk 18:52, Dec 2, 2003 (UTC)

Howard Zinn's birth
moved from your talk page Knowledge Of Self  |  talk. 05:11, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi, would you explain the basis of changing the date of Howard Zinn's birth? Thanks. skywriter 05:09, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

First of all: the other language wikis de:Howard Zinn, sv:Howard Zinn and nl:Howard Zinn and also the en.wikiquote.org have the december 7 date. Then after googling around I also found the following 3 sites with this date. One site has the august 24 date: So I think it's the december date. At least we should not have different dates in the language wikis. --Waelder 18:32, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * http://www.chicagoboyz.net/archives/002159.html
 * http://www.mp3.com/howard-zinn/artists/328645/biography.html
 * http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,728860,00.html
 * http://www.nndb.com/people/395/000026317/

Hi, please see discussion on Howard Zinn page on indisputable fact that his birtdate is not December 7 and why this is a frequently made error, in Zinn's own humorous words. I am copying this discussion to the Howard Zinn discussion page because this error keeps cropping up, and this discussion should appear there. Thanks for your reply. skywriter 20:14, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. - Mys  e  kurity ( have you seen this? ) 03:08, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

If you want to discuss some of my 'contributions (NOT experiments) in this wiki then specify: Thanks. --Waelder 18:37, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) the article
 * 2) what I have done wrong


 * What I was specifically referring to was the Howard Zinn birthdate (which is posted above). Excuse me for my lateness, but I added verror to your page, which produced that message. Your adding of the incorrect date was an error, and thus, I posted that template. It appears you are alright now, but I was just going through the page and warning others as to the correct date. Thank you, and happy editing. - Mys  e  kurity ( have you seen this? ) 21:47, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

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