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No, Wikipedia didn’t get Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman’s birthdate wrong

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Who hasn’t heard about actress Olivia Colman in recent weeks? Not only did she win a Golden Globe for her role in The Favourite, she took home the much-coveted best-actress Oscar. During her numerous interviews, one of the many anecdotes that Colman tells concerns Wikipedia. In the “free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”, Colman apparently discovered that her birthdate was incorrect – the article unkindly made her eight years older than she actually was. When telling the story she reports that she sent “them” an e-mail to request a correction, that their response said she had to provide a birth certificate to prove it. While this initially provoked her outrage, it also gave the British actress a juicy anecdote that ridicules Wikipedia – just the kind of anecdote loved by media such as Sky News, The Daily Mirror, The Evening Standard, The Daily Mail, Harper’s Bazaar and even The Independent.

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Alexandre Hocquet. No, Wikipedia didn’t get Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman’s birthdate wrong. 2019, ⟨10.64628/AAK.dpc7hjqyu⟩. ⟨hal-02056971⟩
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