Forum:Removing ages from actor pages

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Is there a point in having actors' ages on their pages. I mean, they constantly need updating. David Tennant has been 39 since April and has just been updated to reflect this. He's one of the main actors in Doctor Who, so if he hasn't been updated, I wonder who else hasn't. There's no reason to have both the date and age. If people want to know how old they are, they can calculate it themselves. We shouldn't have to continuously update it. Removing that part would remove another thing from the list of things to do. The Thirteenth Doctor 12:49, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

I'm fine with removing it, it's likely just because when they were set up the style (and in some cases content) was taken from Wikipedia. I think it's enough to have their date of birth. Actors who've died, their age can be noted. --Tangerineduel 13:06, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

On Memory Alpha, we created a template that automagically calculates the age when the page is viewed. Doing something like that might be worthwhile.

See the {{Age}} and {{Born}} templates. -- sulfur 16:54, August 25, 2010 (UTC)