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March 6

Editing for accurate age on my personal information

Can you edit and or explain how to edit information regarding accurate age on my personal information

Eric Radomski (64 years old-February 1961)

Currently Wiki states 75 years old 1950...Incorrect! RATMAN31 (talk) 00:59, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@RATMAN31: Our article on Eric Radomski does not mention age or date of birth. You were probably not looking at Wikipedia; please see Wikipedia:You can't fix Google through Wikipedia for a likely solution. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 01:14, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Our sister project Wikidata has the 1950 date, which it sources to howold.co. Howold.co is blacklisted on Wikipedia. If you can link us to a reliable source giving your birthdate, we can add that to the article, and also use it to update Wikidata.-Gadfium (talk) 01:43, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Gadfium. I've removed the date from Wikidata (not sure how well that will stick so an accurate reference would still be useful). -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 01:50, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The background check website Nuwber.com (accessible from the US only) gives the birthdate February 3, 1961.^[1] While I do not know whether this counts as a RS, the site is cited as a source in several articles (Molly Corbett Broad, Anu Emmanuel, Ken Jenne, Don Megerle, Art Rooney Jr., James Taiclet, Donald Tang). ‑‑Lambiam 07:20, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nuwber.com looks pretty non-RS to me. John M Baker (talk) 02:28, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Eric, are there any news articles, etc., that have said anything about your age? Alternatively, if you have a blog or something that can be definitively linked to you, we could use that. But we can’t use this; we don’t even know for sure that this is you. John M Baker (talk) 02:57, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a published interview with Eric from which we can infer his maximum age: he says The Godfather (1972) "had this great impact on me when I was 11 or 12." Card Zero (talk) 19:15, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Eurostat

Does Eurostat have new data for UK? Are there any pan-European statistics that include data from both and EU countries, as well as countries like Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia and Moldova? --40bus (talk) 19:32, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't you look at their website? Nanonic (talk) 20:24, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is not clear. Another UK-related questions:

1. Does UK have defined urban agglomerations that include cities with their environs, like metropolitan statistical areas in the US?
2. Why does UK not have strong administrative regions like French regions, departments, arrondisments and communes? UK has local authority districts (upper, lower and unitary), electoral wards and civil parishes, but they are not used like French ones. In UK it is difficult to estimate the city's limits as some cities are districts and others wards. --40bus (talk) 20:32, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  If it's not clear, why aren't you asking them to clarify it? Nanonic (talk) Nanonic (talk) 20:41, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

40bus, I don't know why you think that the UK should organise itself in the same way as France. Our history has been long and complicated, and our civil administration has evolved uniquely, as have those of other long-established countries.

Go to the link article Local government in the United Kingdom, and follow up the articles linked from it. Once you have read all of those, if you have any further questions come back and ask them. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.64.108 (talk) 22:36, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1) No, since Brexit, the UK has not contributed to Eurostat (even though many non-EU countries do). 2) Yes, the British term is built-up area. 3) Unlike most countries there is essentially total English/British government continuity for centuries (it's never had a revolution nor a military invasion in centuries, and its most significant civil war was completely overturned and the king significantly centralised his power). There's never been a good opportunity for reorganizing the state (unlike say, the French Revolution or the defeat of Nazi Germany), nor a time when central government was weak and regional leaders could grab power. For the same reason, the legal distinction between England and the UK is often confusing (see English votes for English laws). City borders tend be inconsistent because the Industrial Revolution significantly changed the distribution of wealth and population in the UK - cities grew over ancient borough boundaries - and for a long time nothing was done about this. The 1966 Redcliffe-Maud Report would have fixed this, but a change of government to the Conservatives led to those plans being shelved and a much more piecemeal reorganisation happening instead. Smurrayinchester 10:56, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]