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164.116.126.161 (talk) 22:11, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

can i edit

Not done: requests for decreases to the page protection level should be directed to the protecting admin or to Wikipedia:Requests for page protection if the protecting admin is not active or has declined the request. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:15, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Schools named after N.Tesla

There are a lot of schools I know of that are named after N.Tesla in Serbia. I would guess that there must be a number of schools like this in Croatia as well as other former Yugoslav republics, since N.T. was one of our (yugo?) greatest scientists. Should we list all of these? Also, Belgrade international airport is named after Nikola Tesla — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.117.194.66 (talk) 12:32, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In general, such entries need to be notable, i.e. have their own Wikipedia article. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 12:46, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

And this article already has far too many non-notable items in the Things named after Tesla section. Streets and intersection names? It needs to be cut way back. --Chetvorno^TALK 15:04, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tesla's family roots?

I removed this section to talk because it seems to be very WP:OFFTOPIC (and its a little plagiarized). Wikipedia biographies just don't seem to go into detail much beyond parents so my first though was that this should be boiled down but (once you get rid of the aunts and uncles) it gets into WP:PROPORTION problems re: what are we trying to say and is it verifiable? eg. "Tesla came from a military family" or "had a military background"? ... well no, Tesla's father was non-military, maybe even an objector. Even though this may be verifiable and impartial, it seems disproportionate to their overall significance to the article topic and I can really see no reason for a detailed description in a biography that has nothing to do with the subjects notability. Anyway, kicked it here to talk for discussion. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 22:31, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fantastic article worth reading

This was a fantastic article that pays a tribute to a legend. I very much enjoyed reading it. I made a few improvements to text and layout. For the most part I do not see what more can be done to improve it.

ICE77 (talk) 23:24, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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