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Yiddish language

This article has lots of sources and is an important topic. Leoberacai 18:41, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

• Object for now. The external jumps (like this [1]) need to convereted into footnotes and the sections near the end with "main" tags need to have summary paragraphs. Overall, a nice start though. Rlevse 19:27, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 20:12, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
• Strong object. Too short a lead (see WP:LEAD), too few inline citations, and a lot of sections without any text. --Maitch 20:33, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
• Support. an all-round good article.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 23:53, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
• Object Very short lead, numerous sections with no content at all, and needs to be referenced. I didn't check the prose, since the basics aren't even in place. Sandy 01:31, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
• Object - Summary Style means that you still provide a summary of articles you link to. You can't just link them and not describe them at all... Fieari 03:37, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
• Object The sections at the end need summary paragraphs (per fieari and maitch). Also needs more inline sourcing (per maitch again). In the section "Status of Yiddish as a dialect of German" I do not like the words "It has often been suggested"..."the consensus among linguists" - tell me, if it is the conssnsus among lingist then who has been suggesting it (often no less), and if they are not lingist then why do I care - in other words these idea should be quoted by an individual or group of people. Jon513 05:16, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
• Object for now. Expect a lot more citations for a broad and general article like this. -- Миборовский 21:38, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
• Object. Plenty of work left before FA maturity:
  • Needs to abide at least somewhat closely to the language template.
  • Lacks sections on dialects, phonology, grammar, vocabulary, writing system and geographic distribution, all of which are essential to any language article.
  • The sections "Yiddish media", "Heradi Orthodox Jews", "Yiddish and other languages" need to be removed or merged with more appropriately named sections. See above, for example.
  • "Status of Yiddish as a dialect of German" borders the trivial. Yiddish is well-established as a separate language and I don't see a trace of references to any substantial claims of Yiddish being a German dialect.
  • The infobox is cluttered with speaker statistics that belongs in article text.
  • The sections "Books" and "Periodicals" seem to be just lists of recommended reading. Please mark them as such or remove them.
  • There are no audio samples whatsoever or even external links to any language samples.
    • I have now linked Yiddish Radio Project. - Jmabel | Talk 16:31, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Peter ^Isotalo 10:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)