Talk:Rainer K. Sachs

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His partner Arthur Michael Wolfe has an article and this has an equivalent article in German. Under the name "R Sachs" or "R. K. Sachs" he gets tons of Google Scholar hits.--T. Anthony (talk) 00:14, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Translated into FR:

Thanks to the contributors : this page now exists in FR:. Hop ! Kikuyu3 (talk) 17:09, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Death

Rainer Sachs died on 16th April 2024. I intend to note this in the article. No doubt a reliable source for this information will be available soon, but at present I am dependent on personal information, as he was my father in law. Having been a Wikipedia editor since 2006 and an administrator since 2010 I am, of course, well aware of the policy on citing sources and of the guideline on conflict of interest, and if anyone reverts my edit for those reasons, I will not edit-war over it. However, if anyone thinks of doing so, I ask them to first consider the following. Wikipedia's policies and guidelines are policies and guidelines, not rules, and they are there for purposes. The guideline on conflict of interest is intended to prevent biased editing; I can think of no reason why anyone should think that a simple statement of his death might be biased by my connection to him. The policy on sourcing is intended to prevent misinformation in articles; I don't believe that anyone who has made even a cursory examination of my editing history might think I am likely to be lying about this. I therefore invite you to leave my edit in place until a reliable source becomes available, which I expect will be soon, though, as I said above, I will not edit-war if for some reason you decide not to do so. JBW (talk) 11:36, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

There is now a reliable source announcing Sachs's death at https://physics.berkeley.edu/news/remembering-rainer-sachs. Can someone without a COI please add a citation to the article? JBW (talk) 10:09, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Done Lightoil (talk) 05:12, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

A request for an edit

I have just noticed that this article is in the category Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States. Sachs was of partly Jewish ancestry, but he did not regard himself as Jewish, and he was not of Jewish religion. I'm confident that somewhere there's a guideline or policy which say that articles should not attribute a particular religion or ethnicity to a person without reliable sourcing for the fact that they self-identified as such, though I can't off hand quote chapter and verse for where that is. Since there is no such reliable source for that (and can't be, since it isn't true) the category should be removed. Can someone please do that? JBW (talk) 01:35, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Note: I'll defer to more knowledgeable editors as to the request itself, but I would note there seem to be several sources basing his Jewish ancestry on his father's own ancestry. I am unsure how accurate these are, however. PK650 (talk) 06:02, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

• I have just corrected a rather fundamental mistake in my post above. I originally posted Category:Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States, but it was meant to be Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States. The whole point is the inclusion of the word "Jewish". As for PK650's comment, certainly Rainer Sachs was of partly jewish ancestry; however, being of partly jewish ancestry is not the same as being Jewish, and no reliable source says that he was Jewish. JBW (talk) 13:40, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

  Done per WP:BLPCAT (does not seem “relevant to public life or notability”) and WP:CATREL (no self-identification, and religion is not heritable) Shardul.chiplunkar (talk) 17:50, 4 December 2025 (UTC)