User talk:Cobretti1
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Happy editing! I dream of horses (Contribs) Please notify me after replying off my talk page. Thank you. 13:25, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Your undoing of edit on Barbara Bach[edit]
Your edit summary says, "Several other wikipedia pages use birth index entries as a source for date of birth. The index itself is not even linked." Let me offer some thoughts for your consideration:
1) Just because something is found on other pages of Wikipedia does not mean that it is correct.
2) Whether the index was linked or not, the citation ("... On the 1946 birth index for the city of New York, available on the genealogy website Ancestry.) makes it clear that the birth index is the source of the information.
I am not going to revert your change because I prefer not to get into an edit war. I try to follow Wikipedia guidelines as closely as I can. If you prefer not to do so, that is your choice. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:49, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Kate Capshaw's date of birth.[edit]
I have again reverted the addition of a birth date based on a public record (which goes against WP:BLPPRIMARY). In regard to your comment, "Several other articles use the Texas birth index as a source for the birthdays of other celebs." I don't doubt that they do. However, other articles' use of a source does not validate that use. I often see articles that use IMDb, Find A Grave, tv.com, filmreference.com, NNDB, and other unacceptable sources. That does not make use of such sources valid any more than finding a misspelled word in several other articles would justify use of the misspelling in another article. Eddie Blick (talk) 23:53, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Your reversion of my edit to Kim Myers said, "No good reason to remove perfectly fine sources."
According to WP:BLPPRIMARY, California Birth Index is not an appropriate source for use in a biography of a living person. As I noted in my edit summary, it specifies, "Do not use trial transcripts and other court records, or other public documents, to support assertions about a living person. Do not use public records that include personal details, such as date of birth, ..."
California Birth Index is a public document, and it should not be used to support a living person's date of birth.Eddie Blick (talk) 01:39, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
You really should stop adding birth dates based on the birth index as you did here.[1][2]. See also WP:DOB. Continuing to edit war or logging out to make edits and evade scrutiny will get your account blocked. Morbidthoughts (talk) 15:53, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
August 2022[edit]
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia. Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts does not allow the use of both an account and an IP address by the same person in the same setting. You have been warned about edit warring over the use of inappropriate sources. Logging out of your account to continue doing so is unacceptable. If you do so again, you will be blocked. Jack Frost (talk) 03:34, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
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Morbidthoughts (talk) 05:03, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
October 2022[edit]
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:04, 24 October 2022 (UTC)You had been warned about WP:BLPPRIMARY in detail before, further up on this page. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:04, 24 October 2022 (UTC)