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June 2024

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Hello, I'm The Banner. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, John Howard Kyan, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. On multiple pages, in fact The Banner talk 07:33, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

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Please provide an explanation as to how my edits are unconstructive and constitute vandalism. Thank you. Michaelsexton2003 (talk) 23:30, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

You are chopping away large parts of articles. Or in the last case: adding a lot of info to a redirected page, effectively hijacking it. The Banner talk 19:24, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

I only chop away unnecessary or false parts of articles. The redirected page that I recently edited was empty and didn’t affect the other page. Stop vandalising Wikipedia, otherwise I will have to report you. Michaelsexton2003 (talk) 19:30, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

A redirect page is not empty. The Banner talk 19:34, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at List of Irish inventions and discoveries. The Banner talk 19:23, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Piss off, you annoying stupid bot. Michaelsexton2003 (talk) 19:24, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

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August 2024

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at List of Nobel laureates in Physics. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 06:10, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

As stated, your new version is not supported by the references and is thus WP:OR. Look for example at the archived reference for the 1909 Prize, it is stated that Marconi is from Italy, not the UK. This is also a featured list, so if you want to make these many changes, use the list's talk page and try to reach consensus. And if you copy my edit summaries again word by word just to be annoying, I will report it at WP:ANI. Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 06:10, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

I don't think either of you is in the wrong. The note in the relevant column was simply poorly written and saying that the country reflected the laureate's affiliation, while I think the country of birth is supposed to be there. I've removed the note. Sgubaldo (talk) 16:03, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Marie Curie, you may be blocked from editing. Merangs (talk) 22:25, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Stop adding "nationality" to biography infoboxes

Per MOS:INFONAT we do not add nationality to infoboxes. Please stop. If you do it again I will consider it disruptive editing. GA-RT-22 (talk) 23:52, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Flags/nationalities

I don't understand why you want to push your version of the flags/nationalities at the List of Nobel laureates in Physics‎ article. It doesn't seem to be sourced (WP:OR) and it seems to contain mistakes. How do you determine what one's nationality is? Is it the nationality at the time of receiving the award? Is it the nationalities the recipients have (had) throughout their lives? How do you determine this? I also spotted some errors. In your version, I found for example that Max Born was listed as Polish. This is incorrect since he was German (well, until 1939). That is birthplace is nowadays Polish territory doesn't make him a Pole, Breslau was part of the German Empire during Born's time and he was born into a German family. Another example is Carlo Rubbia. Does he really have Swiss citizenship? If he does, it was probably given to him after he won the Nobel Prize. How does that work? How can somebody be listed as Swiss when he didn't have that nationality at the time of receiving that award. I just would not make the nationality/flag changes to the article until it is all properly sourced. Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 11:24, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

This isn't my version, it's the Nobel Foundation's version.

It is sourced. Each year has a reference where you would find the information that you saw in my edits.

The flags represent country of birth and country of scientific affiliation.

Max Born's place of birth was located in Poland at the time of being awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Carlo Rubbia's country of scientific affiliation was Switzerland at the time of being awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics. Michaelsexton2003 (talk) 11:41, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

I can't find the Nobel Foundation's version that gives the nationalities like those in your version. For example, at the 1987 archived version of the accompanying Nobel ref, it states only one country for Georg Bednorz (Germany), not two like in your version (Switzerland and Germany). This is because, the flags should and do (like in the status quo version) represent the nationalities of the persons, not the country of scientific affiliation. You have been told by other editors before that you first need to get consensus for making those kind of changes. Including the Swiss flag for Rubbia is thus WP:OR. Putting a Polish flag at Born is just plain wrong on all levels. He wasn't born in Poland and didn't have Polish nationality. That his birthplace was transferred from Germany to Poland long after he was born doesn't mean his birthplace/country was Poland. Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 11:57, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

In the case of Georg Bednorz, it does show two countries: West Germany and Switzerland. West Germany is the country he was born in and Switzerland is the country that he was scientifically affiliated with at the time of being awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics. Michaelsexton2003 (talk) 12:44, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

The archived version of the reference indeed shows the institution of the recipient with the country it is located in, but the ref only shows one nationality/country above that institution part, in this case the "Federal Republic of Germany". But anyway, I agree with you that changing country to nationality in the article is better and the newer edits are fine by me. Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 16:48, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

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