Topic on User talk:Magnus Manske

Hello Magnus Manske, where did you get Guy Chaussignand-Nogaret's birthdate ? I deleted the insert yesterday but you put it back. He finished his doctoral thesis in 1968, it seems unlikely that he was born in 1950. Than you for your answer. The same thing happened with Michelle Moreau-Ricaud (https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q21707937&diff=685064280&oldid=625915570) Best regards

Looking at the edit summary, it appears to have come from VIAF. Looking at the VIAF entry, it appears to have come from the BNF and/or the ISNI entry, which give the date of birth as "19..". However, this is coded in MARC field 997 as 1950 0. On a very quick look, I couldn't see a spec for the field. It may be that that final 0 indicates that the value is approximate; or there may be no way to know that it is not a detailed year-specific date.

One thing that may stop the bot re-adding it would be to leave the statement on the item, but change its rank to "deprecated", perhaps with the additional qualifier "reason for deprecation" = "incorrect value in source". If it is already in the item in this way, that may stop the bot adding it.

Hello Magnus, thank you for your explanation, I come back to you if the birthdate comes back, best regards

Hello, there the same birthdate and reference to VIAF https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q53844690&diff=prev&oldid=1035252634 Could you do something ??

This was done by a bot that has been deactivated already.