Talk:Bengt Holmström

Hidden away
Why is this hidden away with Bengt Holmström a redlink? Gene Nygaard (talk) 13:00, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Finnish-American?
Why was his nationality edited as "Finnish-American" in the text? He's Finnish who has worked in the U.S. for a long time, but does that make him "American"? Apparently the change was made immediately after the news about his Nobel prize. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.214.197.128 (talk) 10:32, 10 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Petty nationalism. We've seen it on countless articles; an American who moves abroad is still called American, but anyone moving to American is called American if they became famous in any positive way. I'm not saying this nationalist bias is unique to Americans, this just happens to be English Wikipedia with more American users. Besides, a Finnish user who had never edited the article turned up just to remove from the lead the fact that Holmström belongs to the Swedish minority in Finland, an act just as pointless and petty nationalist as the change to "Finnish-American". Jeppiz (talk) 12:19, 10 October 2016 (UTC)


 * It would be helpful if various IPs could stop changing his nationality. Winning a Nobel prize does not make you American; becoming an American citizen makes you American. Holmström is not an American citizen, and not an American. Jeppiz (talk) 15:44, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Name of the article
Hardly anyone calls Holmström "Bengt R. Holmström", so the name of this article should be changed to "Bengt Holmström". JVilis (talk) 20:05, 11 October 2016 (UTC)