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:::You are correct, it says born in France rather than French-born, and I wouldn't take is askance if you changed the phraseology (as far as I'm concerned, the exact phraseology is a minor issue - I don't know whether he has rights to French citizenship or not, because even though France is one of the few European ''Jus Soli'' nations, there are restrictions which I haven't dug into). But his birthplace is evidently part of his identity, given that in his fifty-word life summary he spends three words on that. I think removing it entirely is incorrect. [[User:Tarl_N.|<b style="color:green">Tarl N.</b>]] ([[User talk:Tarl N.#top|<span style="color:teal">discuss</span>]]) 19:57, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

::::OK, well let's put "Canadian-American" and "born in France" in that case, matching his own description. Thanks for engaging on this, hope this resolves the matter. Cheers —<span style="border:solid 0px;color:#fff;background:darkgreen;box-shadow:darkgray 0px 0px 3px">&nbsp;&nbsp;[[User:Cliftonian|<span style="color:#fff">Cliftonian</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Cliftonian|<span style="color:#fff">(talk)</span>]]&nbsp;</span> 19:59, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

:::::That works. I suspect the reason it's important to him, is that while his original citizenship was Canadian, he didn't grow up in Canada. He's now an American citizen (as of about 15 years ago), but that was explicitly by naturalization - he's lived here since dropping his law career and his wife is American, but given his background, the label "American author" doesn't fit quite right. Regards, [[User:Tarl_N.|<b style="color:green">Tarl N.</b>]] ([[User talk:Tarl N.#top|<span style="color:teal">discuss</span>]]) 20:53, 7 January 2019 (UTC)