Talk:Josh Pais

Cousin Gaila

Didn´t he play a Ferengi Weapons-Dealer on DeepSpaceNine?--85.177.21.13 (talk) 23:11, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Date of birth

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Wiki lists date of birth for actor Josh Pais (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Pais) as June 21, 1958. His IMDB page (to which there is a link on the Wiki page) lists it as June 21, 1964. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0656929/. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.13.232.161 (talk) 20:24, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Let's see. The New York Times in an article from January 2003 describes him as "a 38-year-old actor" and says that ""When Mr. Pais and his mother moved to Seventh Street in 1967, Josh was 3..." By my reckoning that makes his date of birth 1964. On the other hand, our article cites filmreference.com, which gives a DoB of June 21, 1958. I'd definitely rate the NYT a better source than filmreference.com (in fact we recommend not citing the latter at all, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Resources - we don't normally cite IMDB either), so we should probably go with that. Of course it is always possible that Pais has been a little economical with his birthdays - a fairly common habit in the acting profession - but we have to work with what we've got. I'll update the article, and add a note on the talk page. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:15, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

On second thoughts, I can't cite the NYT for June 21, 1964 - it doesn't give the exact date. I think that I'd better just leave a note on the article talk page, and look into this further. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:21, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

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I'm not quite sure of the best way to handle this - neither filmreference.com nor IMDB are WP:RS, and the NYT doesn't give an exact date. I'll see if I can find a reliable source which confirms it one way or another. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:27, 18 August 2015 (UTC)