Talk:List of people who died on their birthdays

Automation?

This page is asking to be augmented by a table of Familypedia people. Who's game to try? -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 00:43, July 19, 2016 (UTC)

I don't think it is possible directly: you can query by comparing a property to a constant, but there is no syntax (that I can see) for comparing one property to another. You could use conditional logic on a page to detect "death on birthday", and use that to set a category or a property value that you could then query for. Thurstan (talk) 04:18, July 19, 2016 (UTC)

Don't we compare one property to another when computing "age at death" etc? --- Robin Patterson (Talk) 05:52, April 30, 2020 (UTC)

This is the working part of that (after it checks that both dates exist):

[[Age at death::{{#expr:{{#replace:{{Showfact|death year}}|,}}-{{#replace:{{Showfact|birth year}}|,}}}}]]

- though I can see that by using only "year" it will be wrong about half the time! Can we "use conditional logic" along those lines to produce a property such as "died on birthday" by subtracting birth day from death day to see if the answer is 0 and do the same to the months? --- Robin Patterson (Talk) 06:57, April 11, 2021 (UTC)

Accuracy

We have just had someone correct a birth year, that of Gertrude Astor, from 1877 to 1889, with a Google book image for "proof". But Wikipedia says that she was born in 1887. I wonder how much other misinformation is about. --- Robin Patterson (Talk) 11:06, April 10, 2021 (UTC)

I vote "Delete"

I am inclined to agree with the reasoning that led to this page's deletion from Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people who died on their birthdays. Thurstan (talk) 09:24, April 11, 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for the link; I clearly didn't look hard enough although it looked like a WP article even though not acknowledged here. WP's consensus reason for deletion was non-notability, a standard WP rule. That reason would wipe at least 80% of our pages. So I vote to keep it, particularly because I think we can create and maintain it automatically as discussed above. --- Robin Patterson (Talk) 12:10, April 11, 2021 (UTC)