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The most recent substantial discussion of the Julian/Gregorian issue in this talk page can be found at Talk:George Washington/Archive 38#Birthdate again!. That discussion links to several older discussions, so I guess people have been tweaking this for a long time. However, that discussion isn't the last word; I think that people have been tweaking the dates without checking or modifying that discussion.
Right now, the first sentence does not mention the Julian date, but the infobox does. I think that this is backwards: the article should mention the Julian date (in a Note), but the infobox, which is supposed to be an ultra-lean summary of summaries, should not. That is the way it is done in Anton Chekhov. But that's just off the top of my head. I haven't yet looked at those old discussions from this talk page to check if I am missing something. Bruce leverett (talk) 01:20, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The article does not mention the Julian date in the first sentence, but does mention it in a note to the first sentence of the "Early life (1732–1752)" section. Sorry for confusion that I may have caused by missing this.
The article gives Washington's birth date twice in the text, plus once in the infobox. This is probably unnecessary, but not unheard of, see MOS:BIRTHDATE.
There is an extensive footnote about the Julian date on the text giving his birth date in the Early life section. The footnote is excessive, insofar as it explains the date change; instead it should just link to Old Style and New Style dates. Also, I think that this footnote should have been attached to the first sentence of the article, rather than to the sentence in the Early life section.
There is another footnote about the Julian date on the birth date in the infobox. It is undesirable to clutter the infobox this way; the infobox should only be a summary of "key facts", see MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. Bruce leverett (talk) 02:57, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]