Talk:Carl W. Buehner

Just curious as to why additional citations are required?

I'm not certain about which part of this article requires more citations? It's rather ambiguous. For example:

• Is this in reference to the biographical information about Mr. Beuhner?
• If so, which additional citations are required? Death certificate? Church records? The associated Hoover files? ;-)
• Is this reference to the quotation ascription?
• If so, I would think that the earliest published version of the quote would be the actual answer; similar to how the US Patent office handles the originality of new patent claims.

It seems to me that "Famous Quotes" are often be incorrectly attributed one, or a combination of,the following reasons (which is by no means conclusive): (btw, no pun intended by the use of quotation marks around "Famous Quotes"...)

1. The date of the original quotation is relatively old.
2. The author of the quote is relatively obscure.
3. The limited scope of the audience, that actually heard and/or reported the quote.

I believe this to be particularly true if, in conjunction with above examples, the source date precedes the advent of the omnipresent Internet. :-)

And repeated, in whole or part, by a more recent, and arguably more popular writer,

Due to the presumably limited scope of the author's audience, I might be inclined to recognize that there will be a correspondingly limited set of available citations.

Which brings me to these two simple points:

• If the citation referring to a book that is verifiably published in 1971, which ascribes the quote.Mr. Buehner, and
• There are no prior attributions before 1971, then my question becomes:

What further citation is required?

There is an interesting article from a "quote investigator", with whom I've never met or communicated, dated April 6, 2014: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/06/they-feel/

Any thoughts regarding the above would be much appreciated! ElBoboLibre (talk) 03:13, 13 February 2023 (UTC)