Talk:Carl W. Buehner

Just curious as to why additional citations are required?
I'm not certain about which part of this article requires more citations? It's rather ambiguous. For example:
 * Is this in reference to the biographical information about Mr. Beuhner?
 * If so, which additional citations are required? Death certificate? Church records? The associated Hoover files? ;-)
 * Is this reference to the quotation ascription?
 * If so, I would think that the earliest published version of the quote would be the actual answer; similar to how the US Patent office handles the originality of new patent claims.

It seems to me that "Famous Quotes" are often be incorrectly attributed one, or a combination of,the following reasons (which is by no means conclusive): (btw, no pun intended by the use of quotation marks around "Famous Quotes"...)


 * 1) The date of the original quotation is relatively old.
 * 2) The author of the quote is relatively obscure.
 * 3) The limited scope of the audience, that actually heard and/or reported the quote.

I believe this to be particularly true if, in conjunction with above examples, the source date precedes the advent of the omnipresent Internet. :-)

And repeated, in whole or part, by a more recent, and arguably more popular writer,

Due to the presumably limited scope of the author's audience, I might be inclined to recognize that there will be a correspondingly limited set of available citations.

Which brings me to these two simple points:
 * If the citation referring to a book that is verifiably published in 1971, which ascribes the quote.Mr. Buehner, and
 * There are no prior attributions before 1971, then my question becomes:

What further citation is required?

There is an interesting article from a "quote investigator", with whom I've never met or communicated, dated April 6, 2014: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/06/they-feel/

Any thoughts regarding the above would be much appreciated! ElBoboLibre (talk) 03:13, 13 February 2023 (UTC)