Talk:Mark Liberman

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Did not graduate from Harvard

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

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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)[reply]

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Mark Liberman/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

==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)[reply]

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