Talk:Patrick Corrigan (businessman)

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Categorisation as Chinese

The article is in the categories Category:Chinese emigrants to Australia and Category:Chinese people of British descent. I'm struggling to see how we justify these from the content of the article. Yes, he was born in China but to British parents, as his father was working in China. He is neither ethnically Chinese nor is/was a Chinese citizen. His British parents means he was born a British subject (note he served in the Australian Navy while not an Australian citizen so he must have been a British subject). His family left China because of the Japanese invasion. The dictionary meaning of "emigrate" is "to leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another". It does not seem likely that his parents were permanently resident in China; one assumes (in the absence of the war) they would have returned to the United Kingdom when the job came to an end. I think it would fair to say Corrigan was a British emigrant to Australia and an Australian person of British descent, but I don't think we can say anything stronger than Chinese-born as far as his Chinese status goes. Kerry (talk) 03:20, 31 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In the absence of any objection, I shall implement this. Kerry (talk) 21:21, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch, thank you. hamiltonstone (talk) 23:21, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing

This article was created under contract, but undisclosed, back in 2014. I've just now (2021) trimmed the promotional aspects of the article, from 72Kb down to about 25kb. Possibly (talk) 07:40, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]