Talk:Richard Feynman

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Featured articleRichard Feynman is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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August 18, 2004Featured article candidatePromoted
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June 15, 2006Good article nomineeListed
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Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 31, 2016.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Richard Feynman's work The Feynman Lectures on Physics was co-authored by Matthew Sands and Robert B. Leighton?
On this day... A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on May 11, 2024.
Current status: Featured article

Feynman's Religion[edit]

New subject editors are once again (and understandably) attempting to categorize Feynman under various Judaism categories, but these changes are being reverted. This issue has been discussed multiple times, with the consensus being that Feynman specifically did not wish to be categorized under any religion. If your argument is that religious rules should override personal declarations, then as an editor, you must decide which religious rules to follow. Multiple religious groups now claim Feynman as exclusively their own. For instance, according to the rules of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Feynman was converted to Mormonism in 1990, and thus he is no longer considered Jewish. Please consider that if Wikipedia's policy were to prioritize religious rules over an individual's own declaration of their religious affiliation, it would create numerous complications. The standing consensus to this point has been to respect Feynman's wishes and not assign him to any religious categories. Lexlex (talk) 13:31, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]