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Semi-protected edit request on 26 May 2020

Moved to Talk:Nikola Tesla/Nationality and ethnicity § Semi-protected edit request on 26 May 2020

per Talk page and 16 June 2015 RfC consensus. --Vanjagenije (talk) 15:48, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 28 May 2020

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He was a Croatian and Serbian inventor who moved to USA. He wasn't Serbo American inventor. 151.252.225.248 (talk) 22:52, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Please see the entry at WP:LAME and then realise that this has been discussed to death and consensus reached on the matter and that this requests warrants no further action... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 01:19, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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There is speculation that Nikola Tesla came from Morovlach descent, is like to put that in. 2600:1702:280:4BE0:8170:F988:ED30:CBB4 (talk) 18:54, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. We don't do unsourced speculations. El_C 19:13, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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There is speculation that Nikola Tesla came from Morovlach descent, is like to put that in. 2600:1702:280:4BE0:55D:6D10:42CF:13F (talk) 02:06, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. We don't deal in speculation. Dbrodbeck (talk) 02:15, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnicity in lead

Moved to Talk:Nikola Tesla/Nationality and ethnicity § Ethnicity in lead 2

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Semi-protected edit request on 4 June 2020

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nikola tesla is not serbian american he is just serbian can you please change that . Jelena peric 1 (talk) 01:46, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Please see the entry at WP:LAME and then realise that this has been discussed to death and consensus reached on the matter (as per the notice on top of the talk page) and that this request warrants no further action... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 02:07, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Nikola Tesla is Croatian and Serbian not Serbian can you correct that pleas?? 93.141.36.65 (talk) 12:43, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Please read the note at the top of this page. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 14:00, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 11 June 2020

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He was not serbian but Albanian and there are photos of him in old Albanian clothes. If you dont belive me write on google Nikola Tesla Albanian and you will be convinced that he was Albanian 185.171.63.150 (talk) 19:23, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. Go look at WP:LAME Dbrodbeck (talk) 19:28, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 He was not serbian but Albanian and there are photos of him in old Albanian clothes.
 If you dont belive me write on google Nikola Tesla Albanian and you will be convinced that he was Albanian [[Special:Contributions/185.171.63.150|185.171.63.150]] ([[User talk:185.171.63.150|talk]]) 19:23, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
+:{{not done}}.  Go look at [[WP:LAME]] [[User:Dbrodbeck|Dbrodbeck]] ([[User talk:Dbrodbeck|talk]]) 19:28, 11 June 2020 (UTC)