Talk:Katie Mack (astrophysicist)

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Current Employment at NCSU

Latest comment: 5 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Dr. Mack's current employment at the University of North Carolina State University needs to be updated in the infobox, but I don't know how to parse Wikidata. kencf0618 (talk) 02:21, 2 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Kencf0618, can you be more specific at what information exactly you want to change and how ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:05, 26 March 2019 (UTC)Reply

It's already been taken care of, thanks. kencf0618 (talk) 15:49, 27 March 2019 (UTC)Reply

Nationality/citizenship/birth place

Latest comment: 1 month ago3 comments1 person in discussion

I cannot find any good sources for Mack's nationality, citizenship, or birth place. Context:

English Wikipedia
- Infobox has United States of America as birthplace since December 2023, but without a source: Special:Diff/1226468150
- Categorization: multiple categories by nationality. It started in 2017 with Australian astrophysicists, but was changed to American astrophysicists on the the same day.
Wikidata had Australia as citizenship without sources since 2019: wikidata:Special:Diff/867500650, I deleted it today.

I could only find the following mentions of countries in databases:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8927-1795, which lists Canada in "Countries", citing "Katherine Mack 2016-01-24". However, Orcid doesn't clarify what it means by "Countries" – residence, birth place, citizenship?
- Side note: Mack's LinkedIn page says "Waterloo, Ontario, Canada" as the location, and the official website is registered with a Canadian registrar (source: [1])
French database https://www.idref.fr/253671094 has Pays : Etats-Unis d'Amérique // Date de naissance : 1981, which Google translates to Country: United States of America // Date of birth: 1981
A Polish database https://dbn.bn.org.pl/descriptor-details/9811738674405606 has Obywatelstwo Australia, which translates to Citizenship Australia (see also interwikis of pl:Obywatelstwo), but it uses Wikidata as source for this information.
German National Library lists Land: USA (XD-US), translation: Country: USA (XD-US).

—⁠andrybak (talk) 21:31, 30 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

I removed all mentions of nationality: on enwiki and on Wikidata. —⁠andrybak (talk) 08:46, 17 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

October 2024 Bluesky posts

Mack has posted on her Bluesky account that she's a US citizen, quote:

🗳️ I voted! 🇺🇸
As a US citizen living abroad whose last US address was in Raleigh, I'm eligible to vote electronically in Wake County, North Carolina.
Submitted my ballot today! #IVoted

—⁠andrybak (talk) 03:16, 7 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

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