Jorgemelis

July 2014

Hello, I'm McGeddon. Your recent edit to the page Baby boomers appears to have added incorrect information, so I have removed it for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 11:39, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much, McGeddon. As I think you have made a mistake, according to your wishes, I have left a message on your talk page Jorgemelis (talk) 08:20, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello. I don't mean to attribute any preeminence to myself! We're all on the same level here, I'm just another editor. The issue as I saw it was that you edited the article to say that "the first recorded use of "baby boomer" is from 1941 in an article in Life", but so far as I could see the linked Life article did not use the term "baby boomer" at all, merely "baby boom" (which has a separate article and is a separate subject; presumably "baby boomer" was coined decades later from the pre-existing phrase "baby boom"). --McGeddon (talk) 17:51, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

But, if you are trying to improve the article. why don't you apply the same principles to the previous info? Why do you accept as correct the pair 1970/The Washington Post and reject the pair 1941/Life? Have you been able to read the 1970 article in The Washington Post? I couldn't. What about the OED article? Have you found in it the pair 1970/The Washington Post? I couldn't. Jorgemelis (talk) 01:23, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

I'm just rejecting the 1941 OED you mention because it appears to be talking about the concept of a "baby boom", not that of "baby boomers". I have no opinion either way on the 1970 source. What does your OED have to say about "baby boomer"? --McGeddon (talk) 12:54, 20 July 2014 (UTC)