Talk:Roger Myerson

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Jewish scientists category

I been told by Relata refero, which constantly deleted the category above from the article, that I should cite a source in which Roger Myerson refer to himself as Jewish if I want to add the Jewish scientists category. I didn't find such a source yet (neither did I find an opposite source) - what do you think to be the best solution?--Gilisa 14:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Leave the categorization out for now. Continue your research until you can find a source that meets with the provisions of WP:BLP. Good luck. Blueboar 14:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! But I think that the problem with the WP:BLP is only if considering Jewishness as religion only- and customary Jewishness is also an ethnic matter- when facing with one's religious identity, a satnding for the identity by his\her side is required. but when we are talking about ethnic identity Wikipedia:Categorization of people don’t ([1] and [2]) require such a statement-but I can be wrong.--Gilisa 16:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep it. Jewishness is first and foremost an ethnical issue. This belongs in the Jewish Scientists category. By the way, Jewish is NOT a religion. Judaism is. Wikipedia should be secular anyway.

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Request for photo sent to [3]. --Zureks 18:44, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

deleted Jewish

I don't see any reason why the fact tha Myerson is Jewish should appear in the preamble. I don't see any reason why this "quality" affects in a relevant way the reason why he is on Wikipedia.

Of course, that this fact is quoted in the body of his biography, seems natural to me. --Fioravante Patrone en 12:30, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

about Myerson and "Nobel prize"

About the interventions of SecretaryNotSure on the appropriate name to mention the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (aka "Nobel Prize in Economics"):

saying that "the consensus is..." (can you "prove" this statement?) is quite different from saying "nonsense" about a statement which is simply true.

Please use more appropriate words in the "edit summary", next time, with due respect for the interventions of other contributors (and I am not referring to myself!). --Fioravante Patrone en 05:45, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]