This is odd. So you are saying wikipedia kept getting it wrong for a long time but now the announcement has it wrong and wikipedia is correct?

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justin66 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I cannot imagine why you find the statements above odd but compare and contrast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_C._Dvorak&ol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak

Enough scrolling through the edit history and you could determine when wikipedia finally got their shit together on his birthdate.

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Randomno an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It was changed to '46 today

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antonvs 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The odd part is that the announcement used the same erroneous date that Wikipedia used to have. Perhaps someone forgot to refresh their cache for a couple of years.

	▲	aidenn0 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		More likely they wrote the obit several years ago. That's not uncommon.

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