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Invention by Country Questions

Would inventions by people who are from one country and developed an invention in other country like the U.S. count as inventions from their country of origin. On that topic, Franklin Chang-Diaz is Costa Rican and had developed technology for NASA in the United States. He later returned back to Costa Rica and was allowed to develop the technology he had had created at NASA. Would that be considered a Costa Rican invention?

Excess category

Thankyou America1000 for invitiong me to join the project, but IMHO think this is a category "too far" and I think the energy should be expended in maybe other Projects, such as Technology. Ta. Jabberwoch (talk) 19:00, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Hatnote

Should there be a hatnote pointing to Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day? WP:A11 specifically uses "invented". LaundryPizza03 (talk) 12:40, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Inventions by century

Help me expand the Category:Inventions by century tree! –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:24, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Similar/confusing articles

I am confused by these articles that have similar titles and unclear scopes.

• Timeline of historic inventions (WikiProject Invention|class=list|importance=top): I was reading this article and became confused when I got to the 21st century because there were only two inventions listed.
• History of technology : I don't know the difference. But it clearly has a difference approach and structure.
• Timeline of scientific discoveries: This one seems slightly different in title. But some sort of clear disambiguating statement would be helpful to fight entropy.

1. I didn't do any sort of systematic search, so I have no idea how many other similar articles there may be.
2. All of these articles are "claimed" by multiple WikiProjects.

-Tom Haws (talk) 03:27, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Inquiry on draft for article topic: Leigh Rothschild

Hello, I wanted to get some feedback, as well as assistance on a draft article I've been infrequently working on. The topic of said article is about individual Leigh Rothschild, a somewhat notorious individual in the tech sphere, particularly for patent troll actions and behavior.

The reason for his notoriety is his holding of a numerous amount of patents, either directly or through a holding company. For example, they've been mentioned multiple times by the EFF, as well as having a suit filed against him earlier this year by Valve Corporation.

Jzpelaez (talk) 01:54, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Joining project

Eyo new to this, I've been editing the page List of Israeli inventions and discoveries for a while as it's been very poorly maintained for the most part with a lot of Companys/patents or just false attributes being applied to it. I've been looking for some project like this to align on what can go in these pages. Is there a way to join or what? Galdrack (talk) 12:30, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Timeline of United States inventions for deletion

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– MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 14:46, 31 August 2026 (UTC)