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Your edit to Francis Bacon

Please avoid adding any dates before 15 February 1923 until you thoroughly acquaint yourself with the Gregorian calendar, when it was adopted in various countries, and the calendar it often replaced, the Julian calendar. I have reverted your edit. Jc3s5h (talk) 14:20, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Please state where to find discussion of your bot's approval

Please provide a link to where your bot received approval. I looked at Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Archive and Wikidata:Bots and could not find it. Jc3s5h (talk) 14:30, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

I blocked the bot indef; please request a permission.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:46, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Administrator noticeboard discussion

I have started an Administrators' noticeboard discussion about the erroneous bot edits.

IMDb-derived edit contradicting existing sources

I reverted an edit to Q175899 where the bot was introducing a date of death differing from the 10 existing sources, such as Britannica, Downbeat, American National Biography). I am dubious about whether any data referencing should use IMDb, which is not considered reliable on related projects, but all the more so if it introduces data contradicting existing referenced data? AllyD (talk) 07:57, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

If the date from IMDb differs from the other dates and in this case the other ones are certainly more reliable, the IMDb date should be marked as deprecated.

To the general discussion, I know that IMDb is not considered a reliable source in the English Wiki, but the dates getting imported from the German Wiki sometimes are taken from IMDb, so i am not sure how to deal with that. --Tidoni (talk) 08:45, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

You must add special case if there's no other solution, something like "if url like %imdb.com" should work suitably well. Ipr1 (talk) 03:31, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

bad edit

The bot was was adding data [1] from deprecated http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr89000359.html --Masegand (talk) 17:44, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

More bad edits

In Q5394329 your bot added birth and death dates, again both from IMDb. Adding data from IMDb to a Businessman and state legislator certainly deserves a few checks, especially, if the birth dates differ by 43 years and the death dates by 51 years. So, obviously it's two different persons. Yes, the wrong statement to IMDb already was there, but it anyway needs to be checked a little better. I removed all three statements. If you want to check this, look at the version your bot created on October 20th. --Senechthon (talk) 00:05, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Please don't kill Mr Henderson

Richard Henderson is not dead, yet you have twice inserted a claim of the opposite. The problem is that Library of Congress has two Richard Hendersons (see http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr89000359.html). The dead one is from 1928, but Q1678456 is still alive and - I assume - well. --Pugilist (talk) 07:40, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

@Pugilist: Is n2016013984 the correct LCCN entry? If so, you could change the entry at Richard Henderson to match this, or tell me, than I ill change it to match. Thanks for the hint. Regards Tidoni (talk) 20:38, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

It's obvious that we're dealing with two different Richard Hendersons as Pugilist already pointed out. Your bot has inserted a wrong date of death three times now. Q1678456 is very much alive and certainly didn't die in 2009. SorenRK (talk) 14:43, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi @SorenRK:, I am aware that this entry is wrong. This wrong edit gets inserted, because the wrong entry of the LCCN is pressent at the object. So either the object should be changed/deletet, or as now edited by user:Jura1 the entry should be marked as deprecated. --Tidoni (talk) 09:45, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

+1 similar problem on Jan Talich (Q3499803), whose father, Jan Talich (Q4450444) was a violinist, too. Thanks for clarifying the root of the problem, I have just fixed the wrongly assigned LCCN IDs. (Writing this just to let you know this had been taken care of, since the bot's edits have been reverted three times at this item.) Have a nice day! --GeXeS (talk) 19:24, 28 November 2020 (UTC)