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Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1: May 22nd 2020 at 10:28:04 AM

I am asking this as ~Marauder09 has been editing creator page descriptions to add birth places to creator pages (eg. Tony Hale). I know there's probably Ain't No Rule and this is biographical data that you can look up, but it still rubs me as too specific for our purposes. Why does it matter for the wiki that we know so-and-so was born in San Diego, or something?

I found this discussion on adding birthdays that I don't believe ever reached a resolution besides "take it to wiki talk".

Personally, I add countries and birth years when making creator pages because I think a ballpark of how old the creator is informs the type of works they were involved in (eg. were they a Golden Age of Hollywood actress? Was this author's fiction influenced by growing up in the Cold War?). I think sometimes I add birthdays, and in early creator pages I would probably add birthplaces too if only to fluff up the description (which I regret now), but now it just strikes me as irrelevant.

Again, this information probably doesn't hurt and not the kind of thing I would go back and remove, but maybe some policies on what goes in future creator pages on Creator Page Guidelines would be beneficial.

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#2: May 22nd 2020 at 1:14:07 PM

Creator articles should be relevant to their role in media. Biographical data should be kept to a minimum.

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