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Free diver or pianist ?

What is this man doing among Italian classical pianists ?????
--Alf.68 (talk) 15:17, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Italian" pianist, really ?

"Lazar Naumovich Berman (Russian: Ла́зарь Нау́мович Бе́рман, Lazarʹ Naumovič Berman; February 26, 1930 – February 6, 2005) was a Soviet Russian classical pianist,"

So what is he doing here among ITALIAN classical pianists ?????
--Alf.68 (talk) 15:22, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced birthdays

Hi. I wanted to explain why I reverted a change you made to Kazushi Ōno. In this edit, you added a birth date, but you didn't cite a reliable source. Wikipedia has strict rules on content in biographies of living persons because this can impact real peoples' lives. Please be aware the many sites on the internet purport to give information about celebrities, but few of them of reliable. Sites like the IMDb use user-generated content, and they should not be cited in biographical articles. Similarly, celebrity gossip websites should not be used because most of them don't have a history of fact checking or publishing corrections. Fan sites and blogs are self-published and have no editorial control. We also can't use primary documents, such as government birth databases. This means that the number of available sources is quite slim, and we often have to either go without this information or wait until a source like Entertainment Weekly or the BBC publishes an interview that includes a birth date. If you're not sure whether a source is reliable, you can ask at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:58, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fine ! Just as you like. I’ve been checking every single conductor mentioned in the List of Japanese Conductors, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Japanese_conductors_(music) , most of them with an « unsourced » birthdate - which seemed to bother nobody at en.wikipedia.
But if Ōno is THE one that has to be sourced, that’s no problem, just have it your own way. As long as I have the information I need, why should I care if others don’t, after all ?
Oh, by the way, my source was the Kazushi Ōno page on fr.wikipedia : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazushi_%C5%8Cno . But this is not mentioned in your list of reliable sources. Better wait till the highly scientific, objective and reliable Entertainment Weekly publishes reliable information.
By the way, again : do you know that the birthdates of all these people are seemingly unsourced :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_VI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruhito
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un
It would perhaps be wise to check Entertainment Weekly for accurateness and reliabilty about all those (among thousands of others).
Cheers, have a nice day !
Alf Alf.68 (talk) 05:58, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]