Talk:Christoph Waltz

Dates in infobox

@FMSky - you re-added the dates in the infobox, which I had removed as unusual and not particularly helpful as they are misleading.

Waltz was Austrian by birth. The fact that his parents (or more strictly, his German father) didn't request the piece of paper to certify this is immaterial to the fact that he was Austrian-German by birth. He also stated unequivocally that he feels Austrian since birth (as quoted in the article) as he was born in Austria, grew up in Austria, was trained in Austria, and actually considers his German passport to be a banality.

So these infobox dates, the way they were there were unusual and counter to the BLP's own feelings about his citizenship and was the reason I removed them. MOS:INFONAT notes that dates are only added if one was lost for "previous values", but otherwise ommits them, or alternatively lists the mode of each citizenship, such as a birthplace or by parents right (such is the case here). I made a followup edit now that is in line with INFONAT to indicate the how each citizenship was acquired per our policies, aka Austrian and German by parents birthright, which doesn't cause confusion based on the actual facts and added naturalized for the US. Or alternatively in complicated cases, the policy states In complicated cases, omit from the infobox and explain in the article body instead, as we are doing already, so we could also remove it from the infobox. Raladic (talk) 16:19, 29 September 2024 (UTC)