Can gedmatching use baptism and burial dates?

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Can GEDmatching use birth and burial dates for profiles that have no birth or death date?

I know there are objections to using guesstimates in profiles, baptisms can be 20 years wrong for birth dates, but some vague idea helps with matching, especially with older profiles where the only data to go on in many cases is the baptism and burial.

If a profile is on wikitree has used these esitmated dates for birth and death dates, explained in the bio, then gedmatches tends to miss them as matches, if GEDmatching used baptism and burial dates it should catch a lot more duplicates before thet are uploaded.

I am not suggesting GedCom import should use these dates as birth and death dates, just GEDmatching.
in WikiTree Tech by Living Geleick G2G6 Pilot (224k points)
retagged by Keith Hathaway

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No is the simple answer.
by Living Geleick G2G6 Pilot (224k points)

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