Talk:Mark Liberman

Did not graduate from Harvard

I removed some unsourced material about being kicked out of Harvard. --Tom 21:05, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Language Log as a Source

How does this policy apply, in this instance?

Self-published sources

Never use self-published books, zines, websites, forums, blogs or tweets as sources for material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject (see below). "Self-published blogs" in this context refers to personal and group blogs. Some news organizations host online columns that they call blogs, and these may be acceptable as sources so long as the writers are professionals and the blog is subject to the newspaper's full editorial control. Where a news organization publishes the opinions of a professional but claims no responsibility for the opinions, the writer of the cited piece should be attributed (e.g., "Jane Smith has suggested..."). Posts left by readers are never acceptable as sources.[5]

Pronunciation

Xyzzyva and an unregistered editor have added pronunciation(s) for Liberman's last name, but there is no source. What is the policy on this? Can we cite “personal communication” from Liberman himself, or is it better to leave it unsourced? (There is unlikely to be a published source for this.) Stevvers (talk) 15:52, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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==Start class== I put Liberman's article as start-class; it still needs a picture and some more historical information, but it at least gives not just his current position but also the Language Log connection. /blahedo (t) 15:33, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Last edited at 15:33, 12 September 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 23:13, 29 April 2016 (UTC)