Comment 1 for bug 329693

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solrize (solrize) wrote :

This seems to be about http://openlibrary.org/b/OL15969845M and http://openlibrary.org/b/OL18150102M .

There are english and german wikipedia articles about the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinderhannes
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_B%C3%BCckler

The english article says "c. 1778" and the more detailed german article says 1779.

Actually quite a few other books (mostly in subject categories) mention the incorrect 1783 date:

http://openlibrary.org/search?q=schinderhannes+1783

And a couple of books give his name as "Johannes Biegler".

What is the best way to deal with this? Just fix all the dates through the wiki? What about reporting the fixes to the upstream data source? We should come up with some way to do that.