Talk:Shazia Mirza

Birthdate?

This article is an interview with Mirza published on 3 August 2008, giving her age as 31. That would put her birth in approximately 1977. By this edit to our article, an editor changed the previous unreferenced birth date of 1973 to one referenced to IMDb of 1975.

We thus have three possibilities, and none of them, to my mind, is adequately sourced. I've made no edit on this subject, but I'm calling the problem to people's attention. JamesMLane t c 16:14, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Her facebook lists her birthdate as 3rd October. Technohead1980 (talk) 08:56, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

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Reads like an advert.

This article reads like an advert and it full of puffery. 31.52.252.73 (talk) 19:55, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 March 2019

Shazia Mirza's date of birth is 3rd October 1982 yet someone keeps changing it constantly. I am her manager and I need it reverted back to the original date.

Many Thanks

Martin Twomey mail@martintwomey.com SallyH1976 (talk) 03:06, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Born in October 1982? You're taking the proverbial now!

I notice that you're called Martin. That's funny because the last person who claimed to be her manager was also called Martin but that couldn't have been you because that Martin wrote the following in September 2017:

"This is Shazia Mirza's manager- she is 38 years old. Many Thanks. Martin." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Harkinson3

Note - That Martin kept changing her DOB on here too but on that occasion, he kept changing it to 1979 or 1980.

I'd give up trying to lie about her age if I was you because you will never get away with saying she was born in 1982 on here!

I think the solid sources below should override any confused, contradictory claims by people claiming to be her manager and I think her YOB should be given as 1976.

Ron Stowmarket (talk) 00:06, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

If you are the editor who has been repeatedly changing this information, editors have several times tried to reach out to you to explain what you are doing wrong, and have been getting frustrated at the lack of any response. You cannot just go change information on a page without giving a reliable source WP:RS otherwise how can anyone judge its veracity? The birthdate is sourced in the article, if you are saying this information is wrong please provide a news article, book or similar from a non tabloid source which details the correct date and someone here will update the article. The article is currently locked because of (presumably your) previous edit history. Please also note you are strongly discouraged from editing any page with which you have a conflict of interest WP:COI, including pages of people or organisations with whom you have a financial or personal interest. Please also note Wikipedia does not allow an editor to have multiple accounts in different names. This is known as sock puppetry WP:SOCK and will lead to accounts being blocked. If you think any of these scenarios apply to you please review your editing procedures and declare any conflict of interest on your talk page. Mramoeba (talk) 09:26, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

For your information if your client is uncomfortable with her birthdate appearing on her wikipedia page for privacy reasons it is also possible to remove it from the page and leave the year of birth if cited to a reliable source. Mramoeba (talk) 09:33, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

The most reliable source I have found is an article from the Times December 2005 which details the age of each member of her family, states she is the eldest and puts her year of birth at either 1975 or 1976 (assuming her d.o.b is october 3rd and the interview could concievably have fallen either side of this. As the interview seems to rely on the sibling relationships I would suggest this was fact checked by the Times. The Independent also gives 1976, the Guardian also gives 1976. Interviews in recent years make her year of birth more recent. Whilst it is conceivable she changed her age when younger (to appear older) it makes no sense in the context of the Times article, (and she has spoken in The FT about her 1970s father) it seems more likely she works in entertainment and may for personal or professional reasons wish to appear younger. Mramoeba (talk) 12:34, 14 March 2019 (UTC)