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Information to be updated: Art was born in 1955 and is 62 years old. Explanation of issue: His page currently lists a range for his birth year (1955-1956) and age (62-63) Benzeeful (talk) 21:59, 17 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

Reply 17-JUL-2019

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The range results from the Forbes source which is dated October 2014 and states The 58-year-old Harvard MBA and Boston Consulting Group alum which places his birthday anywhere between November 1955 to October 1956.

Regards, Spintendo 02:07, 18 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

Update 24-JUL-2019

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I've located another source. This one placed him at age 59:

Maheshwari, Sapna (November 18, 2014). "Meet Gap's New CEO: The "Digital Guy" Preparing For More Clicks Than Footsteps". BuzzFeed News. And the pitchman is Art Peck, the 59-year-old digital chief of the company, who will take over as its CEO in two-and-a-half months and get working on the enormous task of reshaping Gap for the 21st century.

The Forbes source dated October 9, 2014 placed him at age 58:

O'Connor, Clare (October 9, 2014). "Meet Art Peck, Gap Inc's New CEO, The Man Modernizing Retail's Old-Timer". Forbes. The 58-year-old Harvard MBA and Boston Consulting Group alum has been responsible for some of Gap Inc's most exciting moves in the last few years.

The BuzzFeed News article was published only 41 days after the Forbes article was, which means if both sources are correct, the birth date must be somewhere between October 10 and November 18, 1955 — which is the lower end of the spectrum I hypothesized in my previous reply above.

The infobox places him at age 62 on December 26, 2018 which would place his birth year in 1956. However, the infobox figure of 62 must be a typo because the Bloomberg source it uses actually states 63 and not 62 (which Bloomberg says is valid up to the last fiscal year submitted, or in this case, 2018). Thus, on December 26, 2018, if the subject was 63 according to Bloomberg, then his year of birth would be 1955.^[a]

I believe that all three of these sources when taken together point to 1955, and are enough to change the subject's birth to that year per WP:CALC. Regards, Spintendo 00:19, 25 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

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^ According to Bloomberg, the age they are displaying is based on data which "is at least as current as the most recent Definitive Proxy." In the case of Arthur Peck, that proxy is "As of Fiscal Year 2018".^[1] In essence, Bloomberg is stating that Arthur Peck was age 63 on or about December 31, 2018. I'm assuming December 31, 2018 when Bloomberg states "As of Fiscal Year 2018" because that is conceivably a middle ground approach considering fiscal years sometimes, but not always, run past the end of a calendar year. Given that metric, Bloomberg's display of age 63 suggests that the year of birth is 1955.

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^ "Arthur Peck Executive Profile". www.bloomberg.com. Bloomberg. Retrieved 25 July 2019.

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[2] According to Bloomberg, the age they are displaying is based on data which "is at least as current as the most recent Definitive Proxy." In the case of Arthur Peck, that proxy is "As of Fiscal Year 2018".^[1] In essence, Bloomberg is stating that Arthur Peck was age 63 on or about December 31, 2018. I'm assuming December 31, 2018 when Bloomberg states "As of Fiscal Year 2018" because that is conceivably a middle ground approach considering fiscal years sometimes, but not always, run past the end of a calendar year. Given that metric, Bloomberg's display of age 63 suggests that the year of birth is 1955.

[1] "Arthur Peck Executive Profile". www.bloomberg.com. Bloomberg. Retrieved 25 July 2019.

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