User blog:RRabbit42/Birth and death dates

I have seen over the last month or so some patterns forming in the edits on this wiki. One of the most recent ones is adding birth and death years for the characters. In some cases, a specific month and day is included. Though I don't know as much about The Simpsons as other people do, I'm inclined to believe that people are inventing this information, for the following reasons:


 * No source is given as to where the dates are coming from, so there is no way for another person to verify the information.
 * The dates are changing. Sometimes the next person (usually an anonymous user) changes the dates that a previous person added. Sometimes it's the same person going back in and changing the date a minute or two later, and it doesn't look like it was a typo the first time.
 * The Simpsons has been on the air since 1989, yet Bart, Lisa and Maggie are still children. That pretty much precludes the show from taking place in any specific time. For a cartoon to start listing exact dates opens itself to contradictions and also limits how flexible it can be in dealing with issues.

As I said, others know more about the show than I do, so I could be wrong about these being fan fiction. If it's in a book, tell us the name of the book and the page or section. If it's in an episode, state the episode. But until people start providing proof for the dates they are adding that other people can verify, the dates should be removed. -RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 02:40, April 15, 2011 (UTC)