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Manchester or Ferranti

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The intro says that she co-wrote the first compiler for the Manchester Mark 1, but the article itself implies that she worked on Toronto's Ferranti Mark 1, a later machine. I propose to change this. A pity it appeared on Wikipedia's main page. PhilUK (talk) 19:42, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Birth Year

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Should a note be listed explaining that her gravestone on FindAGrave.com (memorial #142084908) lists the wrong birth year of 1922? I have verified her correct birth year of 1921 on the actual Mexican birth record registry. I can provide an image of the birth registry and the URL for FindAGrave. Guillaime (talk) 17:09, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Guillaime: Please do post an image of the birth registry at either Wikimedia Commons or FindAGrave and link to it from here. That would be very helpful!
All the references I can find are at d:Q16493#P569. Even having reviewed all these references, I'm not confident of the correct birth year. Many of those citations are junk, which I included just to be comprehensive. We need to be careful about WP:CIRCULAR references here:
English Wikipedia claims that the 1921 date is based on Mexican Registro Civil, yet none of the sources I reviewed mentioned this as their source.
I particularly wish there was a source besides English Wikipedia that mentioned both possibilities. Daask (talk) 15:07, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]