Night Heres your cite which actually addresses several of your wishes WP Biographies of Living Persons You should look especially to Using the subject as a selfpublished source  it states that the article is not based primarily on such sources Thirteen of your eighteen source references are to Pedro and Me or Winicks personal sites yes IMDB counts For example you cite the book as the reason for keeping in the discussion of Rainey while I repeatits an isolated nonturningpoint event in his life It is appropriate for the Real World page perhaps but here its a little offtopic You might as well put in the name of a flavor of ice cream he doesnt like or that someone was mean to him in middle school Its just not important enough for what should be a short bio And a link to Zamoras bio can cover his illness a mention that he had HIVAIDS and was ill covers him quite nicelytheres no need to go into it except for the impact it had on Winick Im just trying to get the article back on track as a onetopic writing hereIm not accusing you of anything   To answer your direct question see the heading Presumption in Favor of Privacy under Privacy of Birthdays on the same pageit may be published elsewhere but I dont know that hes quite notable enough to justify keeping the full datewheres the harm in only noting the year It seems a fairly harmless sensible change to me   Also can someone who is more familiar with the subject add back a criticisms section As there are two of us at least that came to WP solely to find out what the controversy surrounding him might be can someone add this information Im still in the dark