Talk:Jan Otrębski

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Did you know... that Jan Otrębski, who knew nothing of the Lithuanian language until his adulthood, is honored in Lithuania for his studies of the language?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 02:07, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Jan Otrębski, who knew nothing of the Lithuanian language until his adulthood, is honored in Lithuania for his studies into the language? source: first two pages of https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/linpo/58/1/article-p55.xml

Comment: This is my first article here.

Created by Bob not snob (talk). Self-nominated at 06:33, 28 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Bob, and welcome to DYK! Here is your first review: New enough, long enough, neutrally written. However, the article is largely based on one source. We usually understand a dearth of sources for obscure subjects such as fossilized bugs or 15th-century royals, but he is not obscure and there are more sources in English and Polish. Are you able to read Polish? Alternately, I have seen a few Google book sources that mention him, and I also added an oral history interview from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The hook is interesting; hook ref verified and cited inline. No QPQ needed for nominator with less than 5 DYK credits. Yoninah (talk) 00:15, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Yoninah:, I added a few more citations to the article, please take a look. If I can, I prefer to work with English sources, but I can do Polish. I used Marcinkiewicz extensively as it was in English, I have the PDF, and is a manageable size to summarize. Searching google books one sees plenty of results (in Polish, English, German, Lithuanian, and probably also Russian but I did not check), however most of them are only available in snippet view. I did find this biography in Polish (there is a 2 page English abstract in the last two pages) online, and placed it into the external links, but being 428 pages long it poses the opposite problem of being difficult to condense and summarize, any bit I choose from such a long source would be like picking plums out of a pie.Bob not snob (talk) 05:53, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. This is also what I do in my articles: I write the basic outline, then add a few references that also confirm the facts. Please use WP:Citation templates to format your new refs. Yoninah (talk) 10:48, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Yoninah:, the article was already using cite journal/web/book. It was missing some fields for the cite book template, I added now most of what was missing. The old Lithuanian books do not have an ISBN, but the newer German book does.Bob not snob (talk) 11:21, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect. Ready to go. Yoninah (talk) 11:23, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]