Talk:Wolf Gordin

Sourcing
Hi, I had a few questions about the sourcing. Firstly, well done! Obviously a lot of great stuff here. My main reservation is that large portions of the article delve into original research, which is verboten on Wikipedia. Since the encyclopedia is written semi-anonymously and without qualifications/expertise, the strength of our claims rest on the reliability of secondary sources, e.g., academic peer review or an academic university press. We generally don't directly cite and interpret works by the subject, archival holdings, genealogical records, congressional proceedings but instead wait for a scholar or journalist to publish as a secondary source via an editor. I suppose the catch here is, if I correctly presume that you're the author who published with Lilian Türk (in which case I've cited you elsewhere), then if you were to publish this entire draft elsewhere, we'd be able to cite you directly as the secondary source. And if the piece isn't published in, for example, a journal, we could still cite the professional blog of a self-published expert (with limitations). For what it's worth, I understand some of the difficulty in finding secondary source on this subject, having searched English-language sources a few years ago (while illiterate in Russian and Yiddish).

A few questions about the rest of the sourcing: czar 21:39, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Is valerikpunk/poslezavtra.be a reliable source? Doesn't look like the site has any semblance of editorial vetting.
 * Same for the Boris Yelensky piece in Libcom—is there a version with better editorial control?
 * Is the full (exhaustive) bibliography necessary for a general audience? Wikipedia aims to be a generalist encyclopedia, so we usually aim for "Selected bibliographies" of the most noteworthy publications by an author.

Hi -- thanks for this; I can see I've still got a lot to learn about how to "do" Wikipedia properly! I'm in the throes of final grading for the semester, but will turn back to this over the holiday break (and answer your helpful queries above). Cohn-jesse (talk) 14:43, 16 December 2019 (UTC)