Talk:Wassily Leontief

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User:Optim, I'm sure you're watching this page, so I'll reply to your comment on my talk page here! It was nice to have an appreciative comment, so thanks! Anyway, another possible improvement to the formatting of this article is re-arranging the external links -- there are a lot of them, and they're useful, but I think they seem a bit cluttered in the text. How about moving them to the relevant wikipedia articles or simply entering them as ? --Sam


 * Yes you are right, I will take care. Thanks for the recommendation! Optim 00:08, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * What you say about the "small lie" is true, but probably irrelevant. In practice, the "Nobel" prizes in Economics are awarded through a peer-review system much like the one used for "true" Nobel prizes. So, in my view, all the fuss about its pedigree is a bit of attempted upmanship by the members of "harder" sciences – which indeed may well be justified, but on other grounds. Mario 11:17, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Birth certificate
I'd like to include a photo of his birth certificate, as it is relevant and people still change the birth date (he thought most of his life that he was born in 1906 in Russia, but the certificate, when it was found, showed otherwise). However, I'm not sure - as an official document from Germany from 1905, is it public domain? AdamSmithee 08:35, 1 November 2007 (UTC) I am chancing it back to 1905.


 * The actual 1905 birth certificate would probably be public domain in the U.S. (and possibly in Germany, if it's considered an anonymous work), but the image you point to is not that. It appears to be a recent document (dated 2005), with a transcription of information from the original certificate.  As such, the question is whether recent German government forms are copyrighted; I don't have a definitive answer myself, but it's likely to be yes.  You could still cite it externally, though.  --Davepape 14:06, 1 November 2007 (UTC)


 * As stated by Davepape, this is not an actual image of the birth certificate. The footnote has been modified to reflect this fact. Also, Leontief did not say he was born in St. Petersburg, only that he grew up there. (The footnote incorrectly described the Nobel Prize bio has saying he was born in St. P.) So, with the Nobel Prize bio saying 1906 and VIAF data saying 1906 we have two sources for the 1906 YOB. Verses the one (dated 2005) which gives a 1905 YOB. The article data has been changed to 1906 in all respects. – S. Rich (talk) 22:37, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Leontief-Harvard.jpg
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BetacommandBot 05:00, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Solved. I hope that is enough AdamSmithee 07:53, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

On Russian-Jewish attribution
Hi! I remember, Leontief was first marked as a Jew here by one totally crazy person who was later banned from Wikipedia for using sockpuppet accounts. I reverted that edit, but then it reappeared.

Wassily Leontief, and the article clearly states that, is of mixed ethnical origin. So, lets skip that part. Geopolitical attribution is enough. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gritzko (talk • contribs) 20:50, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Exit from the USSR
Ahem, could the sarcoma diagnosis be bought to leave the country? 212.188.108.80 (talk) 01:26, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

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Year of birth 1905 or 1906?
The article presents conflicting information on the year of birth. see opening sentence and the infobox (including tag death_date). Other wikis (ru, de, nl) are also confused. Which is it? Mill 1 (talk) 19:32, 18 May 2019 (UTC)