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A note regarding plagiarism

Please be aware that this article published on November 2011 by The Telegraph clearly takes some of its information from our article, which had the same material in July of that year. - Sitush (talk) 15:23, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This one from Presidency College is also problematic. The Wayback Machine shows it being available on their website in February 2012 but not earlier. It was already in our article before then. Of course, Wayback may have just not crawled the Presidency site prior to that date and in that case we may well be in breach of their copyright. - Sitush (talk) 15:29, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Nationality

He is a Indian Bengali. He holds US Citizenship Refer - https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/banerjee/short Sagar The Editor (talk) 15:09, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Place of Birth and Clarification

Place of Birth is Kolkata as per sources.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 18:22, 14 October 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Abhijit Banerjee was born and brought up in Kolkata where he did his schooling and also college education. He went to South Point High School which was a West Bengal board school — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8800:1804:4c00:4c3f:b098:bf70:4ef (talk)

Abhijit Banerjee was born in Mumbai as per The Economic Times ,The Statesman ,CNN and even the Nobel website lists it as Mumbai.
Schools are normally not listed in the Infobox a person may have studied in many schools and further it would cluster the Infobox it is mentioned in the article.
Nirmala his mother was a Marathi lady (née Patankar) married to a Bengali Dipak Banerjee. The Times of India.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 07:49, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note his his eldest son Kabir Banerjee, who was born in 1991 died in March 2016 .Kabir's mother is Arundhati Tuli .Week.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 09:49, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 15 October 2019

Here it is written that Abhijit Banerjee is by born Marathi. But this is not true. He was born in Mumbai but he is a Bengali by birth. His father was a prominent Bengali teacher. Just because his birth place was Mumbai, It doesn't mean he is Marathi. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sm89am (talk • contribs) 15:35, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Abhijit Benerjee is not from Marathi origin. He belongs to a bengali family. He was born in Mumbai but, he is Bengali by birth Tapabrata2706 (talk) 18:29, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly he is a bengali who has no connention whatsoever with marathi! who has edited this? Abhijeet Banerjee is a pure bengali even his mother is Nirmala banerjee who doesnt speak a word of marathi Abhik69 (talk) 06:49, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Research

i've added a paragraph about his work, under 'Career'. I have tried to explain his approach in a simple manner. I don't know BLP fully, so can someone rewrite this in a more encyclopaedic tone? Also, does anyone have more references to his work (other than his lab's website)? --Jose Mathew (talk) 15:49, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 20 October 2019

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His native name should be in Bengali not hindi. 2601:189:8201:4142:E48D:5474:48D7:76AA (talk) 04:01, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the convention is that in such cases, IPA should be used to prevent language warring. --Jose Mathew (talk) 04:46, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Added name in IPA based on Bengali alphabet. However, I am not a Bengali speaker, so can someone please cross-check if this is correct. Also, cn anyone find an audio recording? --Jose Mathew (talk) 05:35, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 20 October 2019

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Please change Mumbai, Maharashtra to Kolkata India Please insert South Point High School, Kolkata. Nirmala Banerjee is Bengali and not Marathi. Please, Inssert His mother tongue is Bengali. Please insert he is a Hindu Bengali. Please spell his name in bengali. অভিজিৎ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়Msourav01 (talk) 06:35, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 14:34, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Change Name to Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee to অভিজিৎ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় Msourav01 (talk) 07:18, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 14:37, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 21 October 2019

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Major Influencers were Dr. Amartya Sen, Rabindranath Tagore Msourav01 (talk) 06:48, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 14:38, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Parents's religion is not important

User @Prat1212 is undoing my changes to remove the parents's religion. It is not important and seems out of place being mentioned before their professional qualifications.

Please put your reason for including this information here before undoing the changes again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charsikid (talk • contribs) 12:06, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please add his religion Anupphys (talk) 20:55, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If he has a religion, please attribute whatever it is to a reliable source. El_C 20:58, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, he is hindu by religion. Banerjees are Bengali Hindu Brahmin. Please add his religion as Hinduism Anupphys (talk) 21:02, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No reliable source — no consideration. El_C 21:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of Hindu Nobel Laureate

I think, there should have a list of Hindu Nobel Laureates in Wikipedia just like Christian Nobel Laureates or Muslim Nobel Laureates Anupphys (talk) 21:00, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

First, you have not established that he follows the Hindu religion, still. Second, this isn't really the place to request that. Please do so at requested articles. El_C 21:05, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]