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Cassiopeia, "Hong Kong" is technically not a nationality. like you would not say a person's nationality is New Yorker. When he was born, Hong Kong was a British colony,. so he might be a British (or British National (Overseas)) at the time. Since he is identified as Hongkonger, I suppose he still has the citizenship of Hong Kong which implies that he has (one of the) nationality of "Chinese (Hong Kong)" after the handover. this nationality is different from the simpler "Chinese" nationality though. But Hong Kong is still officially a part of PR China so the nationality still says "Chinese", and the right of abode is tied to the Chinese nationality law. Sun8908Talk06:22, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sun8908 Everyone knows Hong Kong is not a nationality. We would not know if he is still hold a Hong Kong Chinese or British passport and we can assume either way. We just put the info as per the source stated for for verification. Cassiopeiatalk06:36, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The nationality should not be listed if it is not known. The citizenship is the what that can be stated. Some biographies of Hong Kong people only state the citizenship as "Hong Kong". The Template:Infobox people has a parm of "citizenship" but the infobox this article use at the time, unfortunately does not have the parm. I would rather to completely remove the nationalities than to state "Hongkonger" as the "nationality" since it is certainly not. Sun8908Talk06:48, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sun8908 He certainly born in Hong Kong and for such he is a citizen of H.K. Wheather he is a Chinese Hong Konger or not after 1997, we dont know for there is no source indicate of that. In Wikiedia, we go by the source as it is the Wikipedia core policy of verifiability. The info box is mma infobox and not infobox ppl as the template applies to all mma fighters. We dont removed it until we could find a source indicate so as Wikipedia is all about verifiability. Cassiopeiatalk09:21, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Cassiopeia I understand the policy of WP:V. The point is the source cannot verify his nationality, so the information couldn't be verified and could be wrong. Removing it would be a better choice. Sun8908Talk09:36, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Cassiopeia, the infobox has given the information of where he was born by {{{birth_place}}}. The nationality is not confirmed with source. It is not appropriate to state unconfirmed nationality with a wrong one. Sun8908Talk09:50, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sun8908 If you are born in the country then you are the citizen. I hope you are not telling me John jones who born in Us is not American and every page in Wikipedia where by the subjects birth place and they are not the citizen of the countries so we should remove the nationality on all the infobox? Your argument is just not reasonable where by there is confirmed source indicated where he was born. Cassiopeiatalk09:55, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Cassiopeia, he was born in that country and his nationality would likely be the country then. But nationality is something that can be changed over time. At the time Palatnikov was born, Hong Kong citizens are tied to British nationality law. His nationality could be British Overseas. Now he could be British National (Overseas) or Chinese (Hong Kong) or others. Since there was a transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, the nationality could and very likely to have changed. By simply saying that his nationality is Hongkonger cannot conclude anything. This is not the same as the relationship between American and the US since Hong Kong is not a recognized country and Hongkongers may have different nationalities at different time, or often more than one nationality at a time. All those uncertainty makes it very hard to verify the nationality of a Hongkonger. Many of the Wikipedia biographies of Hongkongers are not listing the nationality despite knowing they were born in (British) Hong Kong. People from other countries are more verifiable as soon as they were born in one country, they have the citizenship, it would not change unless they intentionally do so, so the nationality can be presumed. Hongkongers couldn't work that way. Sun8908Talk11:31, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sun8908 Wikipedia is all about verifiability and not the true - see Wikipedia:But it's true!. We could only go by what the source say which is available and we should not speculate what the subject status now which we dont know and no source to confirm. Since the subject born after 1997 which means he is HK is under China, then he is not British Overseas nationality. We keep the current info in the article. I guess we have a agreement here. Cassiopeiatalk23:48, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Cassiopeia, the subject was actually born before 1997... My point is that the source only verifies the place he was born, not his nationality. I didn't say "It is true" but instead "It might be false" so the information might be better removed in order to pass WP:V. However, I agree that the current info in the infobox can be kept since he has the permanent ID and there is quite a high chance that he has a Chinese nationality. If we decided to keep it, it would still not yet be verified. It would be IAR. Sun8908Talk08:08, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sun8908 Subject was born in 1989-03-15 - see here. It is not up to us to decide if the info is true of false as in Wikipedia as long as the info could be verified with an independent, reliable source that would be sufficed and that is the whole point of verifiability guideline is for. Cassiopeiatalk09:25, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sun8908 Sorry, somehow my I my eye see 1998 instead of 1989. My bad. So the subject was born pre-1997, so it should be British National (Overseas) Hong Konger/ese then. Cassiopeiatalk09:56, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sun8908 Hi I have not heard from you for 2 weeks of this discussion and if I dont heard from you this week, I will change the nationality to "(Overseas) Hong Konger/ese " in the infobox section. Cassiopeiatalk04:39, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Cassiopeia: Fine. I do not want to go deep into the topic again. I do not have much time to discuss about this single article. I, among your suggestion, would prefer the word "Hongkonger" (without space) cuz it's the most common way to express that. Sun8908Talk04:55, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
