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A belated welcome![edit]

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:04, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Birth dates[edit]

Hi. I wanted to explain why one of your edits were reverted at Carrie Keranen. In these edits, you added a birth date, but you didn't cite a reliable source. Wikipedia has strict rules on content in biographies of living persons because this can impact real peoples' lives. Please be aware that many sites on the internet purport to give information about celebrities, but few of them of reliable. Sites like the IMDb use user-generated content, and they should not be cited in biographical articles. Similarly, celebrity gossip websites should not be used because most of them don't have a history of fact checking or publishing corrections. Fan sites and blogs are self-published and have no editorial control. We also can't use primary documents, such as government birth databases or genealogical websites (which are also typically user-generated, as above). This means that the number of available sources is quite slim, and we often have to either go without this information or wait until a source like The New York Times or the BBC publishes an interview that includes a birth date. If you're not sure whether a source is reliable, you can ask at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:07, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In addition to what NinjaRobotPirate said, if you go to the source that's cited on the main page, you would have seen that it was a newspaper article that was published in 2003 which says that she was 27. Which is probably the only reliable source on the internet that mentions her age. Kcj5062 (talk) 12:09, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]