Talk:Wally Green

Latest comment: 4 years ago by ColinFine in topic Death date

Death date edit

The date of death was given as 11 December 2006 in the Infobox and 11 December 2007 in the text. The only source with a date says 2007 (no specific date). His granddaughter has posted at WP:Teahouse#Can someone please edit the date someone died for me? Thank you. claiming that the date was 11 December 2006. I changed the article, with some misgiving, and posted a request on WT:WikiProject Motorcycling if anybody had a source. I went back to the article and saw it said 2007 - I thought I had got confused, and changed it the wrong way. I now see that Gråbergs Gråa Sång changed it back, to conform with the source (though that doesn't give a date). Not realising that, I edited it again (thinking I had got confused and changed it to 2007), but added a {{cn}} to both instances. This wasn't edit warring, honest! I don't know how to resolve this. I know we can't accept information from an unverified account, but assuming she really is his granddaughter, I am uncomfortable leaving the wrong information about his death there. --ColinFine (talk) 12:29, 13 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

I was confused myself, I thought the Teahouse OP asked for 2007, but I got that wrong. Anyway, a good ref could cure all ills. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:42, 13 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
Note that the source Wal died early this year (2007), just prior to his 81st birthday doesn't add up with born 1918. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:45, 13 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
No, it doesn't. But "early this year" is an easy mistake for "late last year". --ColinFine (talk) 13:02, 13 February 2020 (UTC)Reply