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In September 2024 his Lowestoft birthplace, and seafront family home for more than 20 years, now a 10-bedroom commercial guesthouse, was offered for sale at an asking price of £795,000, as reported by the BBC here. There's a blue plaque, as shown here. But perhaps the sale is of no significance. Martinevans123 (talk) 07:02, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I agree 100% with the first sentence here. I can sympathize with the opinion that including age is redundant when dates are listed, but it makes no sense to argue that it's somehow not redundant when provided via a template. And given that it's included in the lead of a large number of articles via template, I'm not seeing any valid rationale why it cannot be included via text here. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:57, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh good, we both agree that this whole thing is silly. At least we agree on something. Now, for the record, you are putting words into my mouth. I literally never said specifying the age of death is not redundant when it's inside an infobox; I do believe it's redundant as well, especially since people can simply do the math to know at what age a person has died. But my whole point is about CONSISTENCY, to which you have not answered. The thing is, the vast majority of biographical articles DO have the age of death when there's an infobox, but DON'T when there's no infobox; it may seem dumb, and it probably is, but I didn't make the "rules", if you can call it that. But fair enough, if you really think it's important to specify Britten's age of death, I suggest the following: instead of putting it right after the dates of birth and death, I propose editing the final sentence in the lead section from "In his last year, he was the first composer to be given a life peerage." to "In 1976, he was the first composer to be given a life peerage. He died shortly afterwards, aged 63". This, I believe, is a good compromise. What do you think? --Johnn Francis (talk) 01:07, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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