Talk:The Yale Book of Quotations

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A fact from The Yale Book of Quotations appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 February 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Frank and Ernest comic strip first remarked that Fred Astaire "was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, ... backwards and in high heels," according to The Yale Book of Quotations?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/February.

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I removed the warnings as to sourcing and tone. I believe the sourcing warning was not well-taken in the first place, as it should be clear that the article is primarily based on The Yale Book of Quotations, an authoritative reference book itself. For the NPOV concern, I added a comparison to Bartlett's to show that its coverage of traditional literary quotations is more extensive than Yale's. John M Baker 00:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article needs to explicitly cite its sources, see WP:CITE --Peta 03:57, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can you clarify this? Specifically, what are some assertions in the article for which cites are needed? John M Baker 05:02, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Contradictory articles

This articles states that the phrase "There ain’t no such thing as free lunch" is traced to the Reno Evening Gazette on January 22, 1942, in the form "such a thing as a 'free' lunch never existed."

However, the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanstaafl states that: "The earliest known occurrence of the full phrase, in the form "There ain’t no such thing as free lunch", appears as the punchline of a joke related in an article in the El Paso Herald-Post of June 27, 1938, entitled "Economics in Eight Words".[8]" .... 8 ^ Shapiro, Fred (16 July 2009). "Quotes Uncovered: The Punchline, Please". The New York Times – Freakonomics blog. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/quotes-uncovered-the-punchline-please/. Retrieved 16 July 2009.

Since these statements are mutually exclusive, one must be incorrect....despite the citations referring to an identical author in different publications.Mork451 (talk) 11:34, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Yale Book of Quotations (in which my name appears as a contributor) came out in 2006. Presumably, between 2005/06 and 2009, Fred found (or somebody found for him) an earlier appearance. No contradiction exists. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:34, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New YBoQ

Can somebody with less of a conflict of interest than I please update the article? --Orange Mike | Talk 15:33, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]