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Nomen ad hoc (talk) 20:08, 28 November 2018 (UTC).Reply

Dates in Wikidata edit

I noticed you added some dates of birth to some articles and in some cases you only knew the day and the month. Wikidata date datatypes can have various previsions (day, month, year, decade, century, etc), but they can't store dates without a year. So if I were to type February 12, it would be parsed as February of the year 12, i.e. February of the first century AD/CE.

If a day and month is known, you could set the date as "unknown" (use the three dots/pips to the left of the field) and then put a qualifier of "stated as" with a value of the month and day. Alternatively if the decade is approximately known, you could set the date of birth value to something like 1980s with a qualified of "sourcing circumstances" and a value of "circa". William Graham (talk) 18:22, 12 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Oh crap, I've done so many....*sobs*. Thanks for the heads-up, I'll work on fixing them. Lexid523 (talk) 18:45, 12 February 2019 (UTC)Reply