User talk:121.72.79.197

January 2014

Hello, I'm Excirial. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made with this edit to Birthday, because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 20:21, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

I concur. In the edit that was reverted, you wrote "A Birth date is the date your birth was registered and the date you were born is your Born date." In the United States at least, the date your birth is registered, that is, the date the paperwork arrives at the county or state registrar's office, is typically a few days or weeks after the birth. In rare cases it may be done months or years after the date of birth (In some states in the USA, a months- or years-late birth certificate is typically marked as a "delayed birth certificate" so everyone who sees it knows that there was more than the normal possibility that there are errors on it). Only in cases where there is a procedure for quickly filing the paperwork is the date of the birth's registration the same as the date of the birth listed on the birth certificate.

There is a possibility I am misunderstanding you. I know of at least one person in real life whose birth certificate had the wrong date on it. It was off by only one day. His family just accepted it and it was a source of amusement in his family that he had "two birthdays." If this is what you are talking about, then yes, I can see where this would be encyclopedic but only with respect to countries in which inaccurately-recorded dates of birth are common enough to be notable. I don't know of any country where this is a real issue except on one-off situations like the person I mentioned earlier.

In any case, the remainder of your edit was un-sourced opinion and it had no place in a Wikipedia article. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 21:00, 23 January 2014 (UTC)