User talk:Mward87

I believe IMDB is more reliable too. --George Mon e y^{Talk Contribs} 03:53, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Jason Earles birthday need not be changed. give me a RELIABLE source that tells me otherwise.

TV.com is a lot more reliable than IMDB.com. On IMDB.com they produce almost anything people edit on there. Wheras TV.com is run by a lot more people that actually pay more attention to what is submitted. His resume is correct.

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Jason Earles

Hello, I didn't leave you a note that I know of - just one to Dsm500 and an IP. In any event, I wanted to become more informed about these issues anyway. I've seen a few conflicts over birthdays and years, often involving ancestry.com. I never really trusted TV.com and the others, and have recently come to understand that IMDb is not much better. How reliable is ancestry.com as a source? How do we know that some of the data is not corrupted? And why should someone take it instead of, for instance, information from online BBC or NYTimes articles? Or the work of a biographer? Just wondering if you could provide some insight. Gimmetrow 23:46, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Like I said, TV.com is not reliable if any other source contradicts it. It's a collection of fan-submitted trivia with essentially no checking. IMDb is really about the same, although it apparently has slightly higher standards - apparently some source must be provided for data to be changed, but they're not that careful. I'm rather interested in this at the moment because I changed a birthdate on a celebrity-type based on 2 newspaper articles and a biography, and it was reverted almost immediately, seemingly based on interpretation of ancestry.com (I think, the reverted didn't actually give the source). Any thoughts? Gimmetrow 23:59, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you must know, the article is Maria Shriver. Some refs are on the talk page. I thought it was "well known" that she met Arnold when she was 21 and after she had graduated college in 1977. (You could probably find multiple refs for those though google.) This pretty much rules out a February 1955 birthday, so I changed it to November as various sites said. I don't really know if they are fully reliable, but in any event I provided them for others to examine. This was reverted merely mentioning a "public records list" which I assume is the ancestry.com database. It doesn't matter either way; I would just like to figure out how ancestry.com fits into this. Gimmetrow 00:29, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I dont know what to tell yolu about that. Recently I put a block template on someone and they still were able to post and edit. I think you may have to be an admin or somthing, although I'm not sure. Good luck on this.--Chrisstilwell 00:35, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you do need to be an admin to block, but this has nothing to do with blocking. This is about comparing source quality, and trying to make a judgement that one date or the other is "right", or that the sources are conflicting and both should be reported. Gimmetrow 00:45, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm. Got to wondering. Assuming the familytree database is correct, how do you know that is the same Jason Earles? Some sites list a birthplace in Tennessee - if true the California database would involve someone else. (Granted, same name and birthday 8 years apart would be unlikely, but what if?) Where does the Tennessee location come from? Gimmetrow 01:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]