Talk:Terrence Kaufman

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Prof. Kaufman's passing

A note to those who have come to update this article to reflect the fact that Prof. Kaufman has died, know that WP policy is not to update this info the moment you know the person has passed, but to wait for a reliable source to cite with this information. If you think about it a moment I think you'll realize why this particular policy exists, and why in general nothing should (in principle) be put on WP without being backed up by a good citation. I will try to add that citation for this article when I see it available, if no one else does it first. I will not revert the changes though, because I know this happens all the time, and in this case I know personally that this news is true. Himatsu Bushi (talk) 20:06, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tidying up language and style of the article

Hello Maunus, I just came across this article and thought I could help by doing a bit of editing of the language (not the content). I also reordered a couple of adjacent sentences or paragraphs. This is just my attempt to help improve it, but they're just my suggetions really, so if you don't agree with anything and want to revert it I won't be at all offended.

I tried to tidy up the bibliography too but preferred not to touch some things (such as capitalization versus non-capitalization in titles); the same general comment holds there too.

When I tried to upload my revision I ran into an edit conflict. I think it was just a minor typo correction that I was overwriting (and had already taken care of in my version), so I went ahead and put in my version. If I have unwittingly over-written something of importance, I apologise. Cheers, --A R King 16:50, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please go ahead. My articles always improve after being checked up by more tidy editors I am afraid :) Maunus 17:18, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Improving the page

Hi, I intend to improve the page by adding additional content, citations and some images. Please let me know here if this conflicts with anyone else's intended changes or they want additional sources added - Thanks OffaWorldOrder (talk) 03:00, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]