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:: [[User:SideQuestPublications|Side Quest Publications]] [[User talk:SideQuestPublications|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 00:26, November 24, 2014 (UTC) Side Quest Publications | :: [[User:SideQuestPublications|Side Quest Publications]] [[User talk:SideQuestPublications|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 00:26, November 24, 2014 (UTC) Side Quest Publications | ||
:::Actually, the very last paragraph of [[Tardis:Valid sources]] deals with the question of using actors as sources for info about themselves. In addition, Wikipedia and IMDB are not valid sources because they can be edited by anyone. | |||
:::As for the original info, you can look at the page history and see who originally posted that date, but it's a long history and a bit tedious to search. What has happened here is that you've come across a common situation on the wiki. We have a lot of rules, and most users don't know all of them, so they violate policy here and there, and while we try to correct what we can, some stuff slips through the cracks. | |||
:::In a nutshell, the policy for birth dates is they shouldn't be allowed on the page unless they are sourced with a valid source. However, that policy came about after dozens, maybe hundreds, of pages had birthdates added, so a lot of them still have the unsourced birthdates. It's a bit of a mess that isn't easy to clean up. | |||
:::It does look like one source you cited here, the Global casting one, might be ok. We might give that a try, and if you aren't sure how to add a source on the page, let me know. It would be better to include the date in the body of the article, since we don't like to include footnotes in the infoboxes. [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 05:31, November 24, 2014 (UTC) | |||