Talk:Frédéric Bartholdi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
Frédéric Bartholdi is within the scope of WikiProject France, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to France on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please join the project and help with our open tasks. | |
| Start | This article has been rated as Start-Class on the Project's quality scale. (If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments, explaining the ratings and/or suggest improvements.) |
|
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page. | ||
| Start | This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ] | ||
Should this be moved? I was thinking that Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi or Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi would be more appropriate. —Simetrical (talk) 01:44, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC) His name ought to be listed not as FREDERIC BARTHOLDI, which he was never called, but as AUGUSTE BARTHOLDi, which he was called or the very formal FREDERIC-AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI, which is at least accurate. I confirm : it should be changed to FREDERIC-AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI (or at least AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI).--AchilleT 19:58, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Contents |
[edit] Birth date
A number of sources (such as Britannica) give his date of birth as April 2. Anyone know why the discrepancy? Epicidiot 23:01, 1 April 2006 (UTC) BARTHOLDI was born in August not April. Yes, bartholdi was born in AUgust.--AchilleT 19:55, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] More on birth month
This is baffling: resources online seem to be evenly split between the two months. For example:
August: http://www.statueofliberty.info/pages/statuegb/bartholdi.htm http://www.musee-bartholdi.com/musee/index2.php http://www.ville-colmar.fr/adv/culture/anneebartho.htm http://www.crdp-strasbourg.fr/bartho/bio_gen.htm http://edhelper.com/BiographyReadingComprehension_31_1.html
April: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9013523/Frederic-Auguste-Bartholdi http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4931 http://student.britannica.com/comptons/article-9317059/Frederic-Auguste-Bartholdi
The problem however is that Wikipedia itself seems to have become a major reference and this article said April for most of its existence. I believe this may have come from Britannica in the first place. It is also worth noticing that Wikipedia articles in all other languages I have checked including French say August.
As the first three resources I have listed above which say August are directly dedicated to F. Bartholdi, his work and birth town, whereas the ones which say April are general knowledge sites, I think it is safe to assume that August is correct and Encyclopedia Britannica is (gasp!) wrong. Please do not change it again without stating a good reason. Thank you. Mezigue (talk) 21:29, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 03:27, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] First paragraph makes no sense
It implies that he went to study in Paris at the age of 2. Needs to be reworked, which I would do but I do not know the facts.Godingo (talk) 16:14, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
