Talk:Nigel Slater

message: Hi Publife Thanks for reverting the Observer job. My mistake. Does Slater still write for Harpers and Queen and GQ btw ? Jem 16:29, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Nigel Slater Job

message: The arbitration against me greatly reduced my motivation to work for Wikipedia as I said on my talk page.   I feel justice wasn’t served, further the rules about what is and what isn’t an acceptable reference in Wikipedia are so complicated nobody can reasonably be expected to understand and learn them.  Despite this I and others who break these rules risk punishment.  I came across something that definitely should be in Wikipedia, others will have to decide if the BBC is an acceptable source and whether to keep the whole quote or paraphrase parts of it. Proxima Centauri (talk) 11:18, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The BBC as a reference 

message: In BBC Programme Nigel Slater: Life Is Sweets (2012), Nigel Slater, in voice over, says "1968, and now living with Dad and my new stepmum, I officially became a teenager".  This makes his year of birth 1955.  81.141.15.13 (talk) 20:13, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not unusual for media celebrities to be unclear about birth dates. Slater is a writer of semi-fiction. At least two sources say 1958. Span (talk) 20:57, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It's often hard to nail down birth dates. Are we sure 'Nigel Slater' was his birth name? Span (talk) 02:07, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

text: I have found an online "newspaper" article about the dramatisation of Slater's book "Toast" that is dated 9th January 2011 which states that Slater was at that time "54" (Daily Mail). That is consistent with the author being born in April 1956 (I have no reason to question the date only the year of the writer's birth). 
I have found this problem a number of times in Wikipedia (and this is not a criticism of the people who have created and edited this page) that editors will quote internet sources when referring to a person's date of birth (as indeed I have just done), when they cannot be regarded upon as sufficiently reliable to be regarded as definitively correct. 
The two sources referenced on the main page do indeed say "1958", but the latter one may have been copied from the earlier one. There are now three sources saying 1958 (including this article), but they are only as reliable as the original source on which they are based. 
Having come across this before (I see this sort of thing in my professional life) I would urge editors to check their facts with more authoritative sources than pages on the internet. Perhaps a polite e-mail or letter to his agent explaining that the information is for a Wikipedia article would bring a positive response?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnty2o2o (talk • contribs) 12:15, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

text: Few sources could be held as 'definitively correct'. The Daily Telegraph is a reasonably strong source, but strong sources often turn out to be wrong. Do you want to change the date using the index of births as a ref? (My question about his birth name mean genuinely, btw). It might be worth adding a footnote that there are conflicting sources re DOB. Span (talk) 15:30, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth 

message: If he was born in 1958 and his mother died in 1965, how could he have been 9 at the time?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.4.90.44 (talk) 10:49, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do the math 

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