Talk:The Yiddish Policemen's Union

message: The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel → The Yiddish Policemen's Union – "A Novel" is not part of the title; it is an explanatory tag appended to many novel titles. Placing "A Novel" on the title page of novels is a publishing convention, so the phrase often appears as part of the title in library and bookseller catalogues. But in ordinary usage "A Novel" is not considered part of the title. --ShelfSkewed Talk 22:09, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Examples of the title appearing in reputable sources without "A Novel" included as part of the title:
*The publisher's page: Note that "A Novel" appears below the title and is nowhere included as part of the title.
*Cleveland Plain-Dealer, interview with the author in which Chabon is quoted giving the title as The Yiddish Policemen's Union
*Kirkus review
*Amazon.co.uk
*etc. etc.
--ShelfSkewed Talk 04:26, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Moved --Stemonitis 07:25, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

text: No, the correct title is The Yiddish Policeman's Union, not The Yiddish Policeman's Union:  A Novel, and when I requested what I thought should have been a noncontroversial move Stemonitis more or less challenged me to prove that the former was in fact the title. So I did. If there is an identically titled film version, the WP article title will be The Yiddish Policeman's Union (film). No sea of links. --ShelfSkewed Talk 18:37, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: If anyone wants to write an article on the King-Havenner Bill that inspired the novel, there's an excellent series of four articles from the Anchorage Daily News published in 1999.--Pharos 00:16, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical basis 

message: I have not finished the book yet, but it seems highly important to the plot that the "reservation" is a temporary, 60-year "lease," that is about to expire. This is referenced often in the book as the "Reversion."  I am going to take out the word "reservation" which is linked to dictionary-like entry in the Wikipedia. I think "refugee settlement" is better, but if someone has a better term...  Cuvtixo 16:01, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not Reservation: Temporary nature of "Sitka settlement" 

message: Shouldn't this article have something about the plot of the story, not just the background?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.87.64.140 (talk) 00:30, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot 

message: I would say the description of how the world is supposed to have changed is (a) speculative and (b) 'original research' 
Hpengwyn (talk) 10:46, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it is indeed "speculative", but it is a description of the author's speculation: the alternate history that establishes the novel's fictional world.--ShelfSkewed Talk 11:32, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Where does he say this? If it were a better book I would go through and find all the evidence for the alternate world being at all coherent, but I will settle for page numbers from someone else :-) Hpengwyn (talk) 20:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have rewritten the passage, removing everything that is not specifically stated in the book.JTrundle (talk) 18:51, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description of POD speculation and original research? 

message: Producer Scott Rudin can not have purchased film rights 5 years (2002) before the book itself appeared, in 2007. [Nikos Al]
It is entirely possible, and actually common, to purchase the film rights to a to-be-published book. When a popular and successful author (Chabon's The Pittsburgh Mysteries was already a bestseller) announces his or her intention to write a new story, it makes perfect sense for a studio to bet on the property's future popularity and attempt to purchase it before "bestseller" status drives up the competition (and thus the price) for those rights. 69.174.87.20 (talk) 15:22, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Film Adaptation

message: could someone add the Yiddish for this Yiddish expression?--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 12:35, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: 'Yiddish expression "from here to Hotzenplotz"'

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 2 external links on The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080522041340/http://men.style.com:80/details/features/landing?id=content_5477 to http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_5477
*Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/chabonmichael/yiddishpolicemensunion
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 16:38, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: External links modified