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Didn´t he play a Ferengi Weapons-Dealer on DeepSpaceNine?--85.177.21.13 (talk) 23:11, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Date of birth

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Wiki lists date of birth for actor Josh Pais (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Pais) as June 21, 1958. His IMDB page (to which there is a link on the Wiki page) lists it as June 21, 1964. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0656929/. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.13.232.161 (talk) 20:24, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Let's see. The New York Times in an article from January 2003 describes him as "a 38-year-old actor" and says that ""When Mr. Pais and his mother moved to Seventh Street in 1967, Josh was 3..." [2] By my reckoning that makes his date of birth 1964. On the other hand, our article cites filmreference.com, which gives a DoB of June 21, 1958. I'd definitely rate the NYT a better source than filmreference.com (in fact we recommend not citing the latter at all, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Resources - we don't normally cite IMDB either), so we should probably go with that. Of course it is always possible that Pais has been a little economical with his birthdays - a fairly common habit in the acting profession - but we have to work with what we've got. I'll update the article, and add a note on the talk page. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:15, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
On second thoughts, I can't cite the NYT for June 21, 1964 - it doesn't give the exact date. I think that I'd better just leave a note on the article talk page, and look into this further. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:21, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not quite sure of the best way to handle this - neither filmreference.com nor IMDB are WP:RS, and the NYT doesn't give an exact date. I'll see if I can find a reliable source which confirms it one way or another. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:27, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]