Topic on User talk:1Veertje

I would love to see more age at event (P3629) entries for deaths. Are you running a bot that adds them automatically? Are you only adding to Dutch people?

Not at the moment. In 2020 I wrote the script for the New Q5 tool which adds someone's age to their date of death as a qualifier and can also calculate someone's approximate date of birth given these two factors. It also does its best to break up a person's name into given/family names (ironically it badly fails Dutch names like my own). It also features an implementation of the Citoid API which makes it possible to just paste the URL and then get a reference with a title, publication date and language of source. Another feature is that it tries to prevent duplicate entries by showing an selectable overview of search matches to the name that was put in. I copied code I'd previously written that filters out non-contemporary folk, since that was most relevant to the work I was doing at the time. I spend some time over Christmas 2021 trying to make this configurable but never finished the work. I've also been meaning to re-adept the script to create a QS for a new entry that describes a news source, so they can be referenced in a similar way academic papers currently are. Despite its flaws it's a tool. I use myself quite a lot. Now: automating the adding of a person's age as a qualifier can have a big pitfall: both the date of birth and the date of death need to have the same source for the qualifier to be genuine. Adding the age at time of passing when the sources are conflicted/ less well substantiated would introduce new errors or make erroneous claims seem credible. I have no plans at the moment to write the code for such a bot.

Thanks! Yes, we have a large number of entries with conflicting birth dates. I have been filing in missing birth dates and find that actors tend to lie about their age as they get older, so they may be shaving off a year or two as they get older and fill in government forms. We also have a lot of errors in givenname and familyname for Hungarians, they use their familyname first. I have a large list of errors waiting to be corrected where the names are reversed.

Yes, self reporting brings out the vain. I've catalogue all the people mentioned in the Onze Musici (Q108291715) series. The most brazen individual knocked off 12 years off their age!