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Dvorak hated that for decades wikipedia had the wrong birth year and refused to let him change it. He wrote at length about how wikipedia is the antithesis of t

Dvorak hated that for decades wikipedia had the wrong birth year and refused to let him change it. He wrote at length about how wikipedia is the antithesis of the entire conception of a wiki. He was 80, born in 1946.

jhgb 3mo ago
I found very quickly an NYT article from 1993 that listed his date of birth as "April 5, 1952". I don't know if that's the source for the Wikipedia article but that info has been around for a long time, it seems.
throw7 3mo ago
It seems a lot of people that read about their bio on wikipedia feel the same way. In fact, it's hard not to be suspicious of those that don't.
ajmurmann 3mo ago
This is odd. So you are saying wikipedia kept getting it wrong for a long time but now the announcement has it wrong and wikipedia is correct?
- deleted 3mo ago
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- justin66 3mo ago
  I cannot imagine why you find the statements above odd but compare and contrast: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_C._Dvorak&oldid=147404045 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_C._Dvorak&ol... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak Enough scrolling through the edit history and you could determine when wikipedia finally got their shit together on his birthdate.
  - antonvs 3mo ago
    The odd part is that the announcement used the same erroneous date that Wikipedia used to have. Perhaps someone forgot to refresh their cache for a couple of years.
    - aidenn0 3mo ago
      More likely they wrote the obit several years ago. That's not uncommon.
      - ajmurmann 2mo ago
        And didn't bother updating the age in a 2-sentence announcement?
  - Randomno 3mo ago
    It was changed to '46 today
mmooss 3mo ago
> He wrote at length about how wikipedia is the antithesis of the entire conception of a wiki. Do you happen to know where?

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Dvorak hated that for decades wikipedia had the wrong birth year and refused to let him change it. He wrote at length about how wikipedia is the antithesis of t

by CodyMorley 3mo ago

jhgb 3mo ago
I found very quickly an NYT article from 1993 that listed his date of birth as "April 5, 1952". I don't know if that's the source for the Wikipedia article but that info has been around for a long time, it seems.
throw7 3mo ago
It seems a lot of people that read about their bio on wikipedia feel the same way. In fact, it's hard not to be suspicious of those that don't.
ajmurmann 3mo ago
This is odd. So you are saying wikipedia kept getting it wrong for a long time but now the announcement has it wrong and wikipedia is correct?
- deleted 3mo ago
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- justin66 3mo ago
  I cannot imagine why you find the statements above odd but compare and contrast: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_C._Dvorak&oldid=147404045 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_C._Dvorak&ol... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak Enough scrolling through the edit history and you could determine when wikipedia finally got their shit together on his birthdate.
  - antonvs 3mo ago
    The odd part is that the announcement used the same erroneous date that Wikipedia used to have. Perhaps someone forgot to refresh their cache for a couple of years.
    - aidenn0 3mo ago
      More likely they wrote the obit several years ago. That's not uncommon.
      - ajmurmann 2mo ago
        And didn't bother updating the age in a 2-sentence announcement?
  - Randomno 3mo ago
    It was changed to '46 today
mmooss 3mo ago
> He wrote at length about how wikipedia is the antithesis of the entire conception of a wiki. Do you happen to know where?