Item: Doodles Weaver

Language: en-US

Type of Problem: Incorrect_content

Extra Details: This report is solely for FYI future reference purposes.

I've just now confirmed, absolutely, that Mr. Weaver was born in 1912; I've viewed the image of his actual California birth certificate (which, incidentally, also his grave marker and the Social Security Death Index, as well as the California Death Index, etc. agree with), and his birth date clearly definitely was 11 May 1912 (not 1911 like Wikipedia purports).

Since IMDb and Wikipedia conflict about the birth year, I wanted to determine which is correct - and IMDb turns out to have gotten it right.

I'm locking not only the dates and the birthplace, but also the bio (which I took the liberty of changing Wikipedia's stated "1911" to now correctly read "1912"), to prevent possible future tampering with the presented accurate details.

PS: Per the birth certificate, Mr. Weaver was given the name Glendening Winsted Weaver at birth. However, an array of other documents from throughout his lifetime (and also his death documents) make abundantly evident that the names combination he grew up and also went throughout his overall lifetime officially going by was Winstead Sheffield Weaver (which most of his documents state either that names combo, or Winstead S. Weaver, or Winstead Weaver). Yet his published obituary states his full name was [Winstead] Sheffield Glenndenning Dixon Weaver. So, there was some zigging and zagging, where his names combination was concerned. His grave marker identifies him simply as Winstead "Doodles" Weaver.) Both IMDb and Wikipedia have his presentation name as "Doodles Weaver", which is also what I'm sticking with (and locking), as that's how Mr. Weaver was credited all throughout his career.