Talk:Age fabrication

message: Removed Dan Savage from the examples of actors fabricating their age.  He is not an actor, but an advice columnist and activist, and the source of the information about his age fabrication was not a live link. 86.159.13.43 (talk) 12:27, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dan Savage 

message: Adding lack of sources tag. For reference, provide a short explanation or external link to backup claims. IE, listings should say more than just, "Person X, born January 1, 1900, previously claimed to have been born in 1902." --Fallout boy 01:00, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Provide sources

message: This page says that Rafael Furcal was born October 24, 1978, and "was first believed to have been born in 1979". The Rafael Furcal page says that he was born August 24, 1977. MLB Rookie of the Year Award says that he won the award in 2000. But this page also says that "during his major league rookie season, his 40 stolen bases were considered the most ever by a teenaged player". Regardless of whether he was born in 1977, 1978, or 1979, he could not have been a teenager in 2000. WTF????
:Trying to sort this out; the Dodgers site and Baseball-Reference both have 1977, though CNN/SI and ESPN, among others, have 1978 (which I suspect is thr right one). The other info I think I've corrected. MisfitToys 00:47, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Rafael Furcal

message: Would someone like to take on the dispute over Elie Wiesel's true birthdate?  --Davecampbell 01:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elie Wiesel 

message: I think that she graduated valedictorian when she was 16 years old so she probably was born in 1981.
:I've heard a lot about her being born in 1980, supposedly if you have an ancestry.com subscription, her birth certificate says 1980.--Fallout boy 13:48, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alicia Keys  

message: Why "age disputes" and "incidents"? are some case-closed and others ongoing? The two don't make semnse to me. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 04:39, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There are many that should be moved from one category to the other.  Randall Bart    Talk   11:02, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are their two categories? 

message: I'd suggest merging into this article, since they are the same topic.--Fallout boy 20:42, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with [[List of entertainers where birthday and birthyear are in question]]

message: If a judge ruled that her birth date was in 1951, how is the 1941 date a fabrication?  This would not have been changed without a showing of evidence, which would have been easy to prove conclusively with medical and dental records.  A judge would not have changed this date based on a particularly bouncy cuchi-cuchi.  Laszlo Panaflex 03:54, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charo 

message: It's more accurate to write it Thekra since it's written and pronounced with "Th" (Arabic: ذ) instead of "Z" (Arabic: ز).
Radiant 05:59, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zikra 

message: The Oden entry states that it is based on rumor, and is unsourced, but mostly just makes no sense.  If Oden were older, he would have qualified to enter the NBA last year, rather than playing college ball for a year due to the new NBA minimum age requirement. Indeed, there was clear incentive for him to claim to be older, not younger.  4.225.212.229 16:27, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greg Oden 

message: They should add teens! I just saw a news article stating that most teens lie about their age online to benefit from adult sites.
Check this out! It's from a recent November 7, 2007 article from 
BusinessWeekly
From Punkymonkey987 21:31, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  They should add teens! 

message: I thought it was widely known during their marriage that Lucy was older than Desi.  In fact I thought the character Lucy McGillicuddy Ricardo was older than Ricky Ricardo. I am probably wrong, but that's what I thought.  Randall Bart    Talk   11:02, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lucy and Desi

message: I think there's been a mistake, because it doesn't make sense.
If her birthday is September 17, 1968, it's impossible that she revealed that she was 40 in August of 2008. Either the month is wrong, or the sentence should say "when was about to turn 40."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.104.108.6 (talk) 09:43, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anastacia 

message: Author Zora Neale Hurston claimed to be ten years younger than her actual age, as stated in her article. 174.126.75.80 (talk) 08:58, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zora Neale Hurston 

message: I have started a basic rework of the article, moving information into dedicated sections and showing the different reasons why people may choose to falsify their age. Certainly, there is a huge difference between the mechanisms driving a person who wants to appear younger to get an acting role and someone who wants to appear younger to avoid being drafted into a war.
Rather than enumerating the hundreds of examples of age fabrication, we should be documenting the reasons why people take the decision (the ageism of Hollywood, competing in youth sports tournaments, marrying before the age of consent etc). SFB 15:48, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Rework of article

message: More examples of increasing age to pass minimum age restrictions in the entertainment industryL-
Traci_Lords increased her age to enter the porn industry.
Nadine Coyle increased her age to enter aTV singing competition.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by QuentinUK (talk • contribs) 11:29, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Increasing age to enter the entertainment industry 

message: Mariah's birth year is in dispute. There is evidence pointing to both 1969 and 1970. Mariah has never directly confirmed her birth year. Jennifer Lopez long claimed she was born in 1970 until arrest records relating to the 1999 Sean Combs shooting incident in New York revealed her birth year as 1969. Though not a "major" star, Sofia Shinas should also be added to the list.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.169.79.119 (talk) 23:43, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez should be added to the list

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message: Is the example section for the article for those who have individually misrepresented their age or those whose representing company (I.e. record studio, film studio, etc) have done such? This is not been clarified and I suspect it’s why the debate has gone on here in the talk page for several years. 2600:100C:A204:65F2:847F:2D59:8601:9193 (talk) 12:46, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Better just to delete the article given the complete lack of references for the introduction section, the previous discussions, and Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive338#Age_fabrication. --Hipal (talk) 16:42, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay so just request deletion then please. The disputes here have clearly been going for years in the talk page. 2600:100C:A204:65F2:249E:2EE2:A9ED:8608 (talk) 00:35, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subject Matter 

message: Should this article be deleted? There’s been a debate to delete this article 2600:100C:A206:F6CD:F45E:D13B:5FF4:7735 (talk) 01:08, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion