Sources & Corrections

• Structured biographical data — birth dates and places, nationality, education, occupation, spouse — is drawn primarily from Wikidata, the structured database behind Wikipedia, and cross-checked against the linked source where one is cited.
• Careers, awards and timelines come from public record: awards bodies’ own databases, published box-office and sales trackers, official team, studio or label listings.
• Photographs are taken from Wikimedia Commons and similar sources under their own licences, credited on the page where the licence requires it.

Net worth is the clearest case. There is no public register of what a person is worth; every published figure is a third-party estimate built from visible assets, reported earnings and assumption. We print the commonly reported figure and label it as net worth, but it is not an audited number and should not be treated as one.

Box-office and sales totals are similar in kind, though narrower: they are reported by trackers whose methods differ, so two sources can give two numbers for the same title.

Biographical data changes — people take new roles, win awards, and die. Records are refreshed against their sources rather than written once, and each biography carries the date it was last updated so you can see how fresh what you are reading is.

Where a claim is contested between sources, the more conservative reading is used, and where a fact is simply unknown the field is left out rather than filled with a guess. That is why pages differ in length: they show what is actually known about that person.

Corrections are welcome and are the fastest way to make the archive better. Write to [email protected] with:

• the page, and the exact claim that is wrong
• what it should say instead
• a source we can check — a link is ideal

If you are the subject of a page, say so; requests from the person concerned are handled first.