But, of course, place of birth doesn't determine nationality, and also not necessarily modern nationality. I know a few families whose children were born in France, but have the Spanish nationality, and one of them changed nationality (not to French). Polish borders have shifted a few times, to highlight another problem.

I think the problem comes from trying to keep the text short.

> place of birth doesn't determine nationality

Depends: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

In most of the Americas it actually does.

In most of the world by landmass and population it doesn’t

As anybody with dual citizenship has the passports to prove it, Jus Soli is only half (or a third, for triple citizenship) the story.

Anyone with a dual should give one to a stateless person. The group no one talks about.

That's not how nationality/citizenship works, is it?

Not saying they could but think of how many people have more than one citizenship and how many have none. Without a state you are shutoff from everything from the internet to basic rights or a legal place to live. Existing is most likely violating someone's law

That only leaves

- the rest of the world

- the fact that right to nationality is not the same as having it. France has the same right, but --as I already pointed out-- there are quite a few people born there who didn't take the nationality

- the fact that it can change, and that the inference becomes invalid in the future

It depends whether you're trying to follow the "inverted pyramid" writing style [1], which aims to strictly put the most important things first.

Some would say, when describing Tim Berners-Lee, the fact he invented the web is more important than the year of his birth, his middle name, his knighthood or his nationality.

Wikipedia does get his invention of the web into the first sentence of the article [2], which is good - but not before "Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS, RDI (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist"

Of course, it's might not be practical for Wikipedia to follow the inverted pyramid style, as it might invite edit wars about what counts as most important.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

Nationality is not a geographical position. It’s more like saying that someone is a “millenial” instead of listing their actual date of birth.

But unlike which generation you are born in, nationality is not a simple, fixed, unique thing that everyone has.