Talk:Joshua Fishman

What did you do for Yiddish today?
omg, this is the awesomest thing I’ve ever heard of! but has does anyone else know this story? I can’t find it mentioned anywhere on the Web except here. —Wiki Wikardo 01:37, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * , you put your finger on the problem of the whole article- verifiability. Which is why I flagged it today. Someone even (!) reverted my tags,  thinking tossing a book under the sources section automatically sources anything folks jot down here. Now that this man has passed, he deserves a good article. --Wuerzele (talk) 18:44, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Ofelia Garcia mentioned it in an obituary she circulated. I have heard/seen him say it on a video of a conference presentation in the UK. By the way, a number of the page tags were attached to long titles that may have not been obvious as book titles, but they were. We have all lost a great man. Peace to all of us who are left to mourn him. Pete unseth (talk) 19:13, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

inline source problem
I think I now understand what you were looking for when you flagged something for page numbers. I thought you simply meant you wanted the pages of an article within a book. But now I think you are looking for relevant pages in a whole book. When a whole volume is dedicated to Fishman, citing the "relevant" pages would be a challenge. Or have I still misunderstood you? Seeking peace and appropriately relevant and complete source info. Pete unseth (talk) 19:17, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I am glad you see the challenge. Any claim made on the page must be verifiable. Thats how WP works. Right now the Ref list is WP:GENREF. Nobody can reasonably verify claims linked loosely to 10 books. thats what inline references and precisely indicated citations are for. thats why we need pages. Dont you think, you as part of WP owe some text–source integrity to a linguist ?
 * This essential discussion per WP:BRD = your onus to discuss, belongs on the talk:Joshua Fishman page, Pete unseth !  I will move it there. BTW I already started discussing the problems this article has, you didnt look. --Wuerzele (talk) 19:22, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * A fact can be verifiable without specific page numbers, for example if the point supported is the main topic of the cited work and therefore not found on a specific page but in the totality of the cited work.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 19:59, 3 March 2015 (UTC)